The Distress of Zion
Lamentations 4:17
In 11 translations
- BSB
- All the while our eyes were failing as we looked in vain for help. We watched from our towers for a nation that could not save us.
- KJV
- 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.
- WEB
- Our eyes still fail, looking in vain for our help. In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.
- ASV
- Our eyes do yet fail in looking for our vain help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.
- LSV
- While we exist—consumed are our eyes for our vain help, || In our watchtower we have watched for a nation [that] does not save.
- YLT
- While we exist — consumed are our eyes for our vain help, In our watch-tower we have watched for a nation [that] saveth not.
- DBY
- Our eyes still failed for our vain help; in our watching, we have watched for a nation that did not save.
- DRC
- Ain. While we were yet standing, our eyes failed, expecting help for us in vain, when we looked attentively towards a nation that was not able to save.
- GNV
- Whiles we waited for our vaine helpe, our eyes failed: for in our waiting we looked for a nation that could not saue vs.
- JPS
- As for us, our eyes do yet fail for our vain help; in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.
- LXXE
- 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.
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- Written (Ketiv): עוֹדֵינָה (“yet they”). Read aloud (Qere): עוֹדֵ֙ינוּ֙ (“yet we”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.
Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (1)
- Leningrad Codex reads עוֹדֵ֙ינֻה֙; read aloud (Qere) reads עוֹדֵ֙ינוּ֙ (“yet we”).
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- עודינה תִּכְלֶ֣ינָה עֵינֵ֔ינוּ אֶל־עֶזְרָתֵ֖נוּ הָ֑בֶל בְּצִפִּיָּתֵ֣נוּ צִפִּ֔ינוּ אֶל־גּ֖וֹי לֹ֥א יוֹשִֽׁעַ׃Read aloud as (qere): עוֹדֵ֨ינוּ֙
- LXX-Br
- ΦΗ. Ἔτι ὄντων ἡμῶν ἐξέλιπον οἱ ὀφθαλμοὶ ἡμῶν, εἰς τὴν βοήθειαν ἡμῶν μάταια ἀποσκοπευόντων ἡμῶν.
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
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Cross-references most cited first
- Ezekiel 29:16Egypt will never again be an object of trust for the house of Israel, but will remind them of their iniquity in turning to the Egyptians. Then they will know that I am the Lord GOD.”
- 2 Kings 24:7Now the king of Egypt did not march out of his land again, because the king of Babylon had taken all his territory, from the Brook of Egypt to the Euphrates River.
- Isaiah 20:5Those who made Cush their hope and Egypt their boast will be dismayed and ashamed.
- Jeremiah 2:18Now what will you gain on your way to Egypt to drink the waters of the Nile? What will you gain on your way to Assyria to drink the waters of the Euphrates?
- Lamentations 1:19I called out to my lovers, but they have betrayed me. My priests and elders perished in the city while they searched for food to keep themselves alive.
- Jeremiah 2:36How unstable you are, constantly changing your ways! You will be disappointed by Egypt just as you were by Assyria.
- Lamentations 1:7In the days of her affliction and wandering Jerusalem remembers all the treasures that were hers in days of old. When her people fell into enemy hands she received no help. Her enemies looked upon her, laughing at her…
- Ezekiel 29:6–7Then all the people of Egypt will know that I am the LORD. For you were only a staff of reeds to the house of Israel. When Israel took hold of you with their hands, you splintered, tearing all their shoulders; when…
- Jeremiah 37:7–10“This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says that you are to tell the king of Judah, who sent you to Me: Behold, Pharaoh’s army, which has marched out to help you, will go back to its own land of Egypt. Then the…
- Jeremiah 8:20“The harvest has passed, the summer has ended, but we have not been saved.”
- Isaiah 30:1–7“Woe to the rebellious children,” declares the LORD, “to those who carry out a plan that is not Mine, who form an alliance, but against My will, heaping up sin upon sin. They set out to go down to Egypt without asking…
- Isaiah 31:1–3Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in their abundance of chariots and in their multitude of horsemen. They do not look to the Holy One of Israel; they do not seek the LORD. Yet He…
From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).