Lamentations 4:17
King James VersionSource notes
“As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation could not save”
Context
14They have wandered blind in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.
15They cried unto them, Depart ye; unclean; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn
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 could not save
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.
20The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.