| Lamentations 4:17 Parallel Translations |  |
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| NASB: | Yet our eyes failed, Looking for help was useless; In our watching we have watched For a nation that could not save. (NASB ©1995) |
| GWT: | "We are still straining our eyes, trying in vain to find help. We waited and waited for a nation that didn't save us.(GOD'S WORD®) |
| 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. |
| ASV: | Our eyes do yet fail in looking for our vain help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save. |
| BBE: | Our eyes are still wasting away in looking for our false help: we have been watching for a nation unable to give salvation. |
| DBY: | Our eyes still failed for our vain help; in our watching, we have watched for a nation that did not save. |
| ERV: | Our eyes do yet fail in looking for our vain help; in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save. |
| JPS: | As for us, our eyes do yet fail for our vain help; in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save. |
| WBS: | 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: | 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: | While we exist -- consumed are our eyes for our vain help, In our watch-tower we have watched for a nation that saveth not. |
| Lamentations 4:17 Cross References |
| XREF: | Jeremiah 37:7 "Thus says the LORD God of Israel, 'Thus you are to say to the king of Judah, who sent you to Me to inquire of Me: "Behold, Pharaoh's army which has come out for your assistance is going to return to its own land of Egypt.
Lamentations 1:7 In the days of her affliction and homelessness Jerusalem remembers all her precious things That were from the days of old, When her people fell into the hand of the adversary And no one helped her. The adversaries saw her, They mocked at her ruin.
Ezekiel 29:6 "Then all the inhabitants of Egypt will know that I am the LORD, Because they have been only a staff made of reed to the house of Israel.
Ezekiel 29:7 "When they took hold of you with the hand, You broke and tore all their hands; And when they leaned on you, You broke and made all their loins quake." (NASB ©1995) |
| Commentaries and Concordances |
| GSB: | 4:17 As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for {l} a nation [that] could not save [us].
(l) He shows two principal causes for their destruction: their cruelty and their vain confidence in man: for they trusted in the help of the Egyptians. |
| WES: | 4:17 A nation - The Egyptians. |
| MHC: | 4:13-20 Nothing ripens a people more for ruin, nor fills the measure faster, than the sins of priests and prophets. The king himself cannot escape, for Divine vengeance pursues him. Our anointed King alone is the life of our souls; we may safely live under his shadow, and rejoice in Him in the midst of our enemies, for He is the true God and eternal life. |
| CONC: | FALSE Exist Fail Failed Nation Salvation Save Saveth Towers Unable Useless Vain Vainly Wasting Watched Watching Watch-tower Yet |
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