Lamentations 4:17 - Hebrew Names version (HNV)

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.

Lamentations 4:17 Tagairtí Cros

2 Kings 24:7

The king of Egypt didn't come again out of his land any more; for the king of Bavel had taken, from the brook of Egypt to the river Perat, all that pertained to the king of Egypt.

Isaiah 20:5

They will be dismayed and confounded, because of Kush their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.

Isaiah 28:18

Your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with She'ol shall not stand. When the overflowing scourge passes through, then you will be trampled down by it.

Jeremiah 2:18

Now what have you to do in the way to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Shichor? or what have you to do in the way to Ashur, to drink the waters of the River?

Jeremiah 2:36

Why go you about so much to change your way? you shall be ashamed of Egypt also, as you were ashamed of Ashur.

Jeremiah 2:37

From there also shall you go forth, with your hands on your head: for the LORD has rejected those in whom you trust, and you shall not prosper with 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 Kohanim and my elders gave up the spirit in the city, While they sought them food to refresh their souls.

Lamentations 1:7

Yerushalayim remembers 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, To the Ashur, to be satisfied with bread.

Ezekiel 29:16

It shall be no more the confidence of the house of Yisra'el, bringing iniquity to memory, when they turn to look after them: and they shall know that I am the Lord GOD.*'*