Lamentations 4:17 - Tree of Life Version

¹⁷ Even now our eyes waste away looking in vain for our help. From our towers we watched for a nation that could not save us.

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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

No longer did the king of Egypt march out of his country, for the king of Babylon had seized all the land that once belonged to the king of Egypt, from the Wadi of Egypt to the Euphrates River.

Isaiah 20:5

So they will be dismayed and ashamed, because they hoped in Ethiopia and boasted in Egypt.

Isaiah 28:18

Your covenant with death is annulled, and your pact with Sheol will not stand. An overflowing scourge will pass through and you will be its trampling place.

Jeremiah 2:18

But now, what is on the road to Egypt? Drinking the waters of the Nile? Or what is on the road to Assyria? Drinking the waters of the Euphrates?

Jeremiah 2:36

Why do you make light of changing your way? You will be put to shame by Egypt as you were put to shame by Assyria.

Jeremiah 2:37

You will also go out from there with your hands on your head. For Adonai has rejected those in whom you trust— you will not prosper by them.”

Jeremiah 8:20

“Harvest is past, summer is over, yet we are not saved.”

Lamentations 1:19

I called to my lovers— they deceived me! My kohanim and my elders perished in the city when they sought food to keep themselves alive.

Lamentations 1:7

In the days of her affliction and her wandering, Jerusalem remembers all the treasures that were hers from the days of old. When her people fell into enemy hands, there was no one to help her. Her enemies saw her and mocked at her destruction.

Lamentations 5:6

We have held out our hand to Egypt and Assyria to be satisfied with bread.

Ezekiel 29:16

It will no longer be as security for the house of Israel, bringing to mind the iniquity of their turning after them. So they will know that I am Adonai.”