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.
In other versions
Our eyes do yet fail `in looking' for our vain help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.
ASV
Our eyes are still wasting away in looking for our false help: we have been watching for a nation unable to give salvation.
BBE
Our eyes still failed for our vain help; in our watching, we have watched for a nation that did not save.
DBY
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
While we exist -- consumed are our eyes for our vain help, In our watch-tower we have watched for a nation `that' saveth not.
YLT
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.
ENG
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.
WBT
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.
BSB
In context
15They 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.
16The 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.
17As 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.
18They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.
19Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.