Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
Looking for
In our watching we have watched
For a
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.
Holman Bible
ע Ayin
as we looked in vain for assistance;
we watched from our towers
for a nation
International Standard Version
Our eyes failed, searching in vain for hope; we kept watching and looking for a nation that would not help.
A Conservative Version
Our eyes do yet fail [in looking] for our vain help. In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.
American Standard Version
Our eyes do yet fail in looking for our vain help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.
Amplified
[And as for us,] yet our eyes failed,
Looking in vain for help.
Watching [from the towers] we watched
For a nation that could not save.
Bible in Basic English
Our eyes are still wasting away in looking for our false help: we have been watching for a nation unable to give salvation.
Darby Translation
Our eyes still failed for our vain help; in our watching, we have watched for a nation that did not save.
Julia Smith Translation
Continuing, yet our eyes will fail, for our help in vain: in our watching we watched for a nation it will not save us.
King James 2000
As for us, our eyes as yet failed, watching for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Still our eyes failed, [looking for] our help in vain; in our watchtower, we kept watch for a nation that could not save.
Modern King James verseion
While we are, our eyes fail, for our help is vain; in our watching we have watched for a nation; it does not save.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
{Pe} Wherefore yet our eyes fail us, while we look for vain help: seeing we be ever waiting upon a people that can do us no good.
NET Bible
(Ayin) Our eyes continually failed us as we looked in vain for help. From our watchtowers we watched for a nation that could not rescue us.
New Heart English Bible
Our eyes still fail, looking in vain for our help. In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.
The Emphasized Bible
Silly shall our eyes fail, for our help that is vain: In our watchtower, have we watched - for a nation that will not save.
Webster
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.
World English Bible
Our eyes do yet fail [in looking] for our vain help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.
Youngs Literal Translation
While we exist -- consumed are our eyes for our vain help, In our watch-tower we have watched for a nation that saveth not.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Lamentations 4:17
Verse Info
Context Readings
The People Of Zion Speak Out
16
He will not continue to regard them;
They did not
They did not favor the elders.
Looking for
In our watching we have watched
For a
So that we could not walk in our streets;
Our
Our days were
For our end had come.
Names
Cross References
Ezekiel 29:16
And it will never again be the
2 Kings 24:7
Isaiah 20:5
Then they will be
Ezekiel 29:6-7
Because they have been only a
Isaiah 30:1-7
“Who
And
In order to add sin to sin;
Isaiah 31:1-3
And
And trust in chariots because they are many
And in horsemen because they are very strong,
But they do not
Jeremiah 2:18
To drink the waters of the
Or what are you doing on the road to Assyria,
To drink the waters of the
Jeremiah 2:36
Changing your way?
Also,
As you were put to shame by
Jeremiah 8:20
And we are not saved.”
Jeremiah 37:7-10
“Thus says the Lord God of Israel, ‘
Lamentations 1:7
That were from the days of old,
When her people fell into the hand of the adversary
And
The adversaries saw her,
They
Lamentations 1:19
My
While they sought food to