Lamentations 4:17 — Bible Verse (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.”
Lamentations 4:17 — King James Version (KJV), 1611
Lamentations 4:17 in 6 Bible Translations
Read Lamentations 4:17 in the King James Version (KJV) and 5 other free, public-domain translations side by side.
Lamentations 4:17 WEB — World English Bible (2000)
“Our eyes still fail, looking in vain for our help. In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.”
Lamentations 4:17 — World English Bible
Lamentations 4:17 ASV — American Standard Version (1901)
“Our eyes do yet fail in looking for our vain help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.”
Lamentations 4:17 — American Standard Version
Lamentations 4:17 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)
“While we exist--consumed are our eyes for our vain help, In our watch-tower we have watched for a nation <FI>that<Fi> saveth not.”
Lamentations 4:17 — Young's Literal Translation
Lamentations 4:17 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)
“Our eyes still failed for our vain help; in our watching, we have watched for a nation that did not save. ”
Lamentations 4:17 — Darby Translation
Lamentations 4:17 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)
“Whiles we waited for our vaine helpe, our eyes failed: for in our waiting we looked for a nation that could not saue vs.”
Lamentations 4:17 — Geneva Bible
Lamentations 4:17 in Context — Lamentations 4
15 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.
16 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.
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.
18 They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.
19 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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What Does Lamentations 4:17 Mean?
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