17As 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

14 They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.

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 Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

4:17Moreover, our eyes failed, looking in vain for help; from our towers we watched for a nation that could not save us.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:17As 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.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

4:17Ain. 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.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

4:17Our eyes do yet fail in looking for our vain help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:17Our eyes still failed for our vain help; in our watching, we have watched for a nation that did not save.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

4:17Our eyes do yet fail in looking for our vain help; in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:17As 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.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:17Our eyes do yet fail [in looking] for our vain help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

4:17While we exist — consumed are our eyes for our vain help, In our watch-tower we have watched for a nation that saveth not.