Lamentations 4:17
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Consumed Exist Eyes Fail Failed False. Help Moreover Nation Salvation Save Saveth Towers Unable Useless Vain Vainly Wasting Watched Watching Watch-Tower
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Consumed Exist Eyes Fail Failed False. Help Moreover Nation Salvation Save Saveth Towers Unable Useless Vain Vainly Wasting Watched Watching Watch-Tower
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English Standard Version
Our eyes failed, ever watching vainly for help; in our watching we watched for a nation which could not save.

New American Standard Bible
Yet our eyes failed, Looking for help was useless; In our watching we have watched For a nation that could not save.

King James Bible
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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
All the while our eyes were failing as we looked in vain for assistance; we watched from our towers for a nation that refused to help.

International Standard Version
Our eyes failed, searching in vain for hope; we kept watching and looking for a nation that would not help.

NET Bible
Our eyes continually failed us as we looked in vain for help. From our watchtowers we watched for a nation that could not rescue us.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"We are still straining our eyes, trying in vain to find help. We waited and waited for a nation that didn't save us.

King James 2000 Bible
As for us, our eyes as yet failed, watching for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.

American King James Version
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.

American Standard Version
Our eyes do yet fail in looking for our vain help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Ain. While we were yet standing, our eyes failed, expecting help for us in vain, when we looked attentively towards a nation that was not able to save.

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

English Revised Version
Our eyes do yet fail in looking for our vain help; in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

World English Bible
Our eyes do yet fail [in looking] for our vain help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.

Young's Literal Translation
While we exist -- consumed are our eyes for our vain help, In our watch-tower we have watched for a nation that saveth not.
Lexicon
As for us our eyes
`ayin  (ah'-yin)
an eye; by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
as yet failed
kalah  (kaw-law')
to end, whether intransitive (to cease, be finished, perish) or transitived (to complete, prepare, consume)
for our vain
hebel  (heh'bel)
emptiness or vanity; figuratively, something transitory and unsatisfactory; often used as an adverb -- altogether, vain, vanity.
help
`ezrah  (ez-raw')
aid -- help(-ed, -er).
in our watching
tsphiyah  (tsef-ee-yaw')
watchfulness -- watching.
we have watched
tsaphah  (tsaw-faw')
to lean forward, i.e. to peer into the distance; by implication, to observe, await -- behold, espy, look up (well), wait for, (keep the) watch(-man).
for a nation
gowy  (go'-ee)
a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts -- Gentile, heathen, nation, people.
that could not save
yasha`  (yaw-shah')
to be open, wide or free, i.e. (by implication) to be safe; causatively, to free or succor
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