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Lamentations 4:17 KJV
Lamentations · chapter 4 · verse 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.Lamentations 4:17 · King James Version
Lamentations 4:17 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.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- watchingtsᵉphîyâhwatchfulnessH6836 →
- watchedtsâphâhproperly, to lean forwardH6822 →
- failedkâlâhto end, whether intransitive or transitivedH3615 →
- nationgôwya foreign nationH1471 →
- eyesʻayinan eyeH5869 →
- vainhebelemptiness or vanityH1892 →
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We have here, I. The sins they were charged with, for which God brought this destruction upon them, and which served to justify God in it (Lam 4:13, Lam 4:14): It is for the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests. Not that the people were innocent;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 13-20