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Our eyes do yet fail [in looking] for our vain help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.
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A Failed Political Alliance
Commentators agree that this verse describes the final, desperate days of the siege of Jerusalem. The people were watching intently, likely from a watchtower, for help from a political ally. Scholars widely identify this hoped-for ally as Egypt, which had promised aid but proved powerless against the invading Babylonian army.
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Lamentations
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18th Century
Presbyterian
A rapid sketch of the last days of the siege and the capture of the king.
(Lamentations 4:17) Rather, Still do our eyes wast…
19th Century
Anglican
As for us ... —Better, Still do our eyes waste away, looking for our vain help.
In our watching. —…
16th Century
Protestant
Here the Prophet charges the people with another crime: that, neglecting God and even despising His favor, they had always attached themselves to v…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help Or, "while we were yet" F8 ; a nation, a people, a bo…
Nothing ripens a people more for ruin, nor fills the measure faster, than the sins of priests and prophets. The king himself cannot escape, for Div…
13th Century
Catholic
Here he excludes the possibility of escape, ruling out four potential ways of escape.
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