Lamentations 4:17 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁷ Our eyes do yet fail in looking for our vain help; in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ As for us, our eyes as yet failed For our vain help: In our watching we have watched For a nation that could not save us.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ As for us, our eyes yet failed and wasted away in looking for our worthless help. In our watching [on our watchtower] we have watched and waited expectantly for a nation [Egypt or some other one to come to our rescue] that could not save us. [Ezek. 29:16.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ Our eyes do yet fail in looking for our vain help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ Our eyes continually failed, looking for some help, but for nothing. From our watchtower we watched for a nation that doesn’t save.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ AIN. While we were still standing, our eyes failed, expecting help for us in vain, when we looked attentively toward a nation that was not able to save.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ Ain. While we were yet standing, our eyes failed, expecting help for us in vain, when we looked attentively towards a nation that was not able to save.

Lamentations 4:17 Cross References

2 Kings 24:7

And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of his land: for the king of Babylon had taken, from the brook of Egypt unto the river Euphrates, all that pertained to the king of Egypt.

Isaiah 20:5

And they shall be dismayed and ashamed, because of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.

Isaiah 28:18

And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.

Jeremiah 2:18

And now what hast thou to do in the way to Egypt, to drink the waters of Shihor? or what hast thou to do in the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River?

Jeremiah 2:36

Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? thou shalt be ashamed of Egypt also, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.

Jeremiah 2:37

From him also shalt thou go forth, with thine hands upon thine head: for the LORD hath rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt not prosper in them.

Jeremiah 8:20

The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.

Lamentations 1:19

I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought them meat to refresh their souls.

Lamentations 1:7

Jerusalem remembereth in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that were from the days of old: when her people fell into the hand of the adversary, and none did help her, the adversaries saw her, they did mock at her desolations.

Lamentations 5:6

We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

Ezekiel 29:16

And it shall be no more the confidence of the house of Israel, bringing iniquity to remembrance, when they turn to look after them: and they shall know that I am the Lord GOD