Lamentations 4:17
“As for vs, our eyes as yet failed for our vaine helpe: in our watching we haue watched for a nation that could not saue vs.”
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Lamentations 4:17 Context
15They cryed vnto them; Depart yee, it is vncleane, depart, depart, touch not, when they fled away and wandred: they said among the heathen, They shall no more soiourne there. 16The anger of the Lord hath diuided them, he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they fauoured not the elders. 17As for vs, our eyes as yet failed for our vaine helpe: in our watching we haue watched for a nation that could not saue vs. 18They hunt our steps that we cannot goe in our streets: our end is neere, our dayes are fulfilled, for our ende is come. 19Our persecutours are swifter then the eagles of the heauen: they pursued vs vpon the mountaines, they laide waite for vs in the wildernesse.
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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].
- King James Version
Yet our eyes failed, {Looking} for help was useless; In our watching we have watched For a nation that could not save.
- New American Standard Version (1995)