Lamentations 4:17 KJV — MannaFest

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.

KJV

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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.

WEB

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.

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.

DBT

Our eyes still failed for our vain help; in our watching, we have watched for a nation that did not save.

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Lamentations — Five poems over the ruin of Jerusalem. The first four are alphabetic acrostics — every letter of the Hebrew alphabet drafted to hold the weight of grief. At the book's centre, mercy renewed every morning.

Author: Traditionally Jeremiah (cf. 2 Chron 35:25); the book itself is anonymous
Date: Shortly after Jerusalem's fall, c. 586 BC

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Isaiah 38:14
Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
Ezekiel 29:16
And it shall be no more the confidence of the house of Israel, which bringeth their iniquity to remembrance, when they shall look after them: but they shall know that I am the Lord God.
Jeremiah 37:7
Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel; Thus shall ye say to the king of Judah, that sent you unto me to enquire of me; Behold, Pharaoh’s army, which is come forth to help you, shall return to Egypt into their own land.
Psalms 108:12
Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
2 Kings 24:7
And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of his land: for the king of Babylon had taken from the river of Egypt unto the river Euphrates all that pertained to the king of Egypt.

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); they watched in watching; they watched long, and with a great deal of earnestness and impatience, for a nation that promised them assistance, but failed the, and frustrated their expectation. They could not save them; they were too weak to contend with the Chaldean army and therefore retired. Help from creatures is vain help ( Ps. lx.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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H3615208× in canon

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LAM 4:17EZE 29:16 EZE 29:6-7
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
LAM 4:172KI 24:7 JER 46:2
LAM 4:172KI 24:7 JER 37:5-7
LAM 4:17EZE 29:16 HOS 8:13
LAM 4:17EZE 29:16 ISA 20:5
LAM 4:17LAM 1:7 PSA 79:4
LAM 4:17ISA 20:5 ISA 30:5
LAM 4:17ISA 20:5 ISA 30:3

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