Lamentations 4:17

Old Testament Poetry ASV (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

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Context — Lamentations 4

American Standard Version (1901) — public domain. Click any verse for its study page.

14They wander as blind men in the streets, they are polluted with blood, So that men cannot touch their garments.

15Depart ye, they cried unto them, Unclean! depart, depart, touch not! When they fled away and wandered, men said among the nations, They shall no more sojourn [here].

16The anger of Jehovah hath scattered them; he will no more regard them: They respected not the persons of the priests, they favored not the elders.

17Our eyes do yet fail [in looking] for our vain help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.

18They hunt our steps, so that we cannot go in our streets: Our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.

19Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the heavens: They chased us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.

20The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of Jehovah, was taken in their pits; Of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the nations.

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