Lamentations 4:17

Even now our eyes anxiously wait for our valueless help: in our waiting have we waited for a nation that cannot help.

Leeser Tanakh

In The 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.

In Context

16The anger of the Lord hath divided them; he will no more look at them: the faces of the priests they respected not, and the elders they spared not.

18They hunt our steps, that we cannot walk in our streets: our end is near, our days are full: for our end is come.

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Cross References

Isaiah 20:5And they shall be terrified, and ashamed of Cush their trust, and of Egypt their vaunt.

Isaiah 30:1Woe to the rebellious children, saith the Lord, that take counsel, but not from me; and that set themselves a ruler, but not by my spirit, in order that they may add sin to sin:

Jeremiah 2:18And now what hast thou to do on the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Shichor? and what hast thou to do on the way of Asshur, to drink the waters of the river?

Jeremiah 2:37Also from this one shalt thou go forth, with thy hands [clasped] over thy head; for the Lord hath rejected those on whom thou trustest and thou shalt not prosper with them.

Jeremiah 37:7Thus hath said the Lord, the God of Israel, Thus shall ye say to the king of Judah, that hath sent you unto me to inquire of me, Behold, Pharaoh's army, which is come forth to help you, returneth into its own land to Egypt.

Lamentations 1:19I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and my elders perished in the city; for they sought food for themselves to refresh their soul.

Matthew Henry on Lamentations 4:14-21

Cause of Jerusalem's Sorrows. ( b. c. 588.) 13 For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her, 14 They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments. 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… Read the whole commentary →

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