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Lamentations 4:17
“Our eyes do yet fail [in looking] for our vain help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.”
Verse in context — Lamentations 4
15
Depart! they cried to them, Unclean! depart, depart, don't touch! When they fled away and wandered, men said among the nations, They shall no more live [here].
16
The anger of Yahweh has scattered them; he will no more regard them: They didn't respect the persons of the priests, they didn't favor the elders.
17
Our eyes do yet fail [in looking] for our vain help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.
18
They hunt our steps, so that we can't go in our streets: Our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.
19
Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky: They chased us on the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
About Lamentations
Poems of grief over Jerusalem’s destruction.
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