Lamentations 4:17

As for us, &c. The prophet, after having digressed in the last five verses to make observation on the wickedness of those who had been the principal cause of the national ruin, here returns again to the lamentable description of the particulars. Our eyes as yet failed for our vain help The help of the Egyptians, which they had expected in vain. In our watching we have watched We have long waited with eager desire and expectation; for a nation that could not save us For succours from a people who at last have wofully disappointed us.