PHE. While we yet lived our eyes failed, while we looked in vain for our help. TSADE. We looked to a nation that could not save.
LXX
Lamentations 4:17
Phe. While we yet lived our eyes failed, while we looked in vain for our help. Tsade. We looked to a nation that could not save.
Parallel Translations
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.
Our eyes still fail, looking in vain for our help. In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.
Cross References
Ezekiel 29:162 Kings 24:7Isaiah 20:5Ezekiel 29:6–7Jeremiah 8:20Isaiah 30:1–7Isaiah 31:1–3Lamentations 1:7Jeremiah 2:18Lamentations 1:19Jeremiah 2:36Jeremiah 37:7–10
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