Lamentations 4:17
World English Bible (WEB)
Our eyes still fail, looking in vain for our help. In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.
In context
15 “Go away!” they cried to them. “Unclean! Go away! Go away! Don’t touch! When they fled away and wandered, men said among the nations, “They can’t live here any more.”
16 The LORD’s anger has scattered them. He will not pay attention to them any more. They didn’t respect the persons of the priests. They didn’t favor the elders.
17 Our eyes still fail, looking in vain for our help. In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.
18 They hunt our steps, so that we can’t go in our streets. Our end is near. Our days are fulfilled, for our end has come.
19 Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky. They chased us on the mountains. They set an ambush for us in the wilderness.
Lamentations 4:17 in every translation
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 .