Lamentations 4:17

Our eyes still fail, looking in vain for our help. In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.

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WEBBE

Our eyes still fail, looking in vain for our help. In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.

BSB

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.

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.

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Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Hebrew and Greek data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. Library: sources.