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Lam_4:17 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].
Ver. 17. As for us, our eyes as yet failed.] With long and vain looking. {as Psa_119:82; Psa_119:123} "For, As for us," some render, Cum adhuc essemus, while as yet we were - scil., a nation, for now we are none. Fuimus Troes.
In our watching we have watched for a nation,] sc., For the Egyptians. {Jer_2:18; Jer_2:36; Jer_37:7-8}