Lamentations 4:17
King James Version (KJV)
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.
In context
15 They cried unto them, Depart ye; it is unclean; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn there.
16 The anger of the LORD hath divided them; he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not the elders.
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.
18 They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.
19 Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
Lamentations 4:17 in every translation
- KJV King James Version
- 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.
- WEB World English Bible
- Our eyes still fail, looking in vain for our help. In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- All the while our eyes were failing as we looked in vain for help. We watched from our towers for a nation that could not save us.
- ASV American Standard Version
- Our eyes do yet fail in looking for our vain help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- While we exist — consumed are our eyes for our vain help, In our watch-tower we have watched for a nation [that] saveth not.
- DBY Darby Translation
- Our eyes still failed for our vain help; in our watching, we have watched for a nation that did not save.
- WBS Webster Bible
- 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 .