King James Version (KJV)
Lamentations 4:17
“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].”
Verse in context — Lamentations 4
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].
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.
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].
They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.
Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
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Poems of grief over Jerusalem’s destruction.
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