Lamentations 4:17

World English Bible (2000)

Our eyes do yet fail [in looking] for our vain help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • Ezek 29:16 : 16 It shall be no more the confidence of the house of Israel, bringing iniquity to memory, when they turn to look after them: and they shall know that I am the Lord Yahweh."'"
  • Ezek 29:6-7 : 6 All the inhabitants of Egypt will know that I am Yahweh, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel. 7 When they took hold of you by your hand, you broke, and tore all their shoulders; and when they leaned on you, you broke, and paralyzed all of their thighs."
  • 2 Kgs 24:7 : 7 The king of Egypt didn't come again out of his land any more; for the king of Babylon had taken, from the brook of Egypt to the river Euphrates, all that pertained to the king of Egypt.
  • Isa 20:5 : 5 They will be dismayed and confounded, because of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.
  • Isa 30:1-7 : 1 "Woe to the rebellious children," says Yahweh, "who take counsel, but not from me; and who make an alliance, but not with my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin, 2 who set out to go down into Egypt, and have not asked my advice; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt! 3 Therefore the strength of Pharaoh will be your shame, and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt your confusion. 4 For their princes are at Zoan, and their ambassadors have come to Hanes. 5 They shall all be ashamed because of a people that can't profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach." 6 The burden of the animals of the South. Through the land of trouble and anguish, of the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to an unprofitable people. 7 For Egypt helps in vain, and to no purpose; therefore have I called her Rahab who sits still.
  • Isa 31:1-3 : 1 Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, and rely on horses, and trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very strong, but they don't look to the Holy One of Israel, and they don't seek Yahweh! 2 Yet he also is wise, and will bring disaster, and will not call back his words, but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of those who work iniquity. 3 Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When Yahweh stretches out his hand, both he who helps shall stumble, and he who is helped shall fall, and they all shall be consumed together.
  • Jer 2:18 : 18 Now what have you to do in the way to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Shihor? Or what have you to do in the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River?
  • Jer 2:36 : 36 Why do you go about so much to change your way? You will be ashamed of Egypt also, as you were ashamed of Assyria.
  • Jer 8:20 : 20 The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.
  • Jer 37:7-9 : 7 Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, You shall tell the king of Judah, who sent you to me to inquire of me: Behold, Pharaoh's army, which is come forth to help you, shall return to Egypt into their own land. 8 The Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city; and they shall take it, and burn it with fire. 9 Thus says Yahweh, Don't deceive yourselves, saying, The Chaldeans shall surely depart from us; for they shall not depart. 10 For though you had struck the whole army of the Chaldeans who fight against you, and there remained but wounded men among them, yes would they rise up every man in his tent, and burn this city with fire.
  • Lam 1:7 : 7 Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that were from the days of old: when her people fell into the hand of the adversary, and none did help her, The adversaries saw her, they did mock at her desolations.
  • Lam 1:19 : 19 I called for my lovers, [but] they deceived me: My priests and my elders gave up the spirit in the city, While they sought them food to refresh their souls.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Lam 4:18-19
    2 verses
    82%

    18They hunt our steps, so that we can't go in our streets: Our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.

    19Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky: They chased us on the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.

  • Lam 5:16-17
    2 verses
    77%

    16The crown is fallen from our head: Woe to us! for we have sinned.

    17For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim;

  • Ps 123:1-3
    3 verses
    75%

    1To you I do lift up my eyes, you who sit in the heavens.

    2Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress; so our eyes look to Yahweh, our God, until he has mercy on us.

    3Have mercy on us, Yahweh, have mercy on us, for we have endured much contempt.

  • Jer 3:23-24
    2 verses
    75%

    23Truly in vain is [the help that is looked for] from the hills, the tumult on the mountains. Truly the salvation of Israel is in Yahweh our God.

    24But the shameful thing has devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

  • Ps 108:12
    75%

    12Give us help against the enemy, for the help of man is vain.

  • 2 Chr 20:12
    75%

    12Our God, will you not judge them? For we have no might against this great company that comes against us; neither know we what to do, but our eyes are on you."

  • Ps 60:11
    75%

    11Give us help against the adversary, for the help of man is vain.

  • Isa 59:9-11
    3 verses
    74%

    9Therefore is justice far from us, neither does righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.

    10We grope for the wall like the blind; yes, we grope as those who have no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the twilight; among those who are lusty we are as dead men.

    11We roar all like bears, and moan bitterly like doves: we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.

  • Jer 8:15
    74%

    15We looked for peace, but no good came; [and] for a time of healing, and behold, dismay!

  • Isa 33:2
    74%

    2Yahweh, be gracious to us. We have waited for you. Be our strength every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.

  • Ps 44:17-18
    2 verses
    73%

    17All this has come on us, yet have we not forgotten you, Neither have we been false to your covenant.

    18Our heart has not turned back, neither have our steps strayed from your path,

  • Lam 5:8
    73%

    8Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.

  • Ps 119:123
    73%

    123My eyes fail looking for your salvation, for your righteous word.

  • Jer 14:19-20
    2 verses
    73%

    19Have you utterly rejected Judah? has your soul loathed Zion? why have you struck us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and behold, dismay!

    20We acknowledge, Yahweh, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against you.

  • Ps 33:20
    72%

    20Our soul has waited for Yahweh. He is our help and our shield.

  • Ps 74:9
    72%

    9We see no miraculous signs. There is no longer any prophet, neither is there among us anyone who knows how long.

  • 2 Sam 22:42
    72%

    42They looked, but there was none to save; even to Yahweh, but he didn't answer them.

  • Lam 5:4-5
    2 verses
    72%

    4We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold to us.

    5Our pursuers are on our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.

  • Ps 119:82
    72%

    82My eyes fail for your word. I say, "When will you comfort me?"

  • Jer 8:20
    72%

    20The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.

  • Dan 9:14
    72%

    14Therefore has Yahweh watched over the evil, and brought it on us; for Yahweh our God is righteous in all his works which he does, and we have not obeyed his voice.

  • Jer 9:18-19
    2 verses
    71%

    18and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.

    19For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we ruined! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.

  • 2 Chr 29:9
    71%

    9For, behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.

  • Ps 79:4
    71%

    4We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.

  • Ps 17:11
    71%

    11They have now surrounded us in our steps. They set their eyes to cast us down to the earth.

  • Ps 141:8
    71%

    8For my eyes are on you, Yahweh, the Lord. In you, I take refuge. Don't leave my soul destitute.

  • Ezra 9:15
    71%

    15Yahweh, the God of Israel, you are righteous; for we are left a remnant that has escaped, as it is this day. Behold, we are before you in our guiltiness; for none can stand before you because of this."

  • Lam 4:16
    71%

    16The anger of Yahweh has scattered them; he will no more regard them: They didn't respect the persons of the priests, they didn't favor the elders.

  • Jer 14:8
    71%

    8You hope of Israel, its Savior in the time of trouble, why should you be as a foreigner in the land, and as a wayfaring man who turns aside to stay for a night?

  • Lam 5:1
    71%

    1Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us: Look, and see our reproach.

  • Ezra 9:7
    70%

    7Since the days of our fathers we have been exceeding guilty to this day; and for our iniquities we, our kings, and our priests, have been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to plunder, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.

  • Ps 142:4
    70%

    4Look on my right, and see; for there is no one who is concerned for me. Refuge has fled from me. No one cares for my soul.

  • Isa 20:6
    70%

    6The inhabitants of this coast land will say in that day, 'Behold, this is our expectation, where we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria. And we, how will we escape?'"

  • Jer 6:24
    70%

    24We have heard its report; our hands wax feeble: anguish has taken hold of us, [and] pangs as of a woman in travail.

  • Ps 44:23-24
    2 verses
    70%

    23Wake up! Why do you sleep, Lord? Arise! Don't reject us forever.

    24Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?

  • Neh 4:9
    70%

    9But we made our prayer to our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.

  • Lam 5:20
    70%

    20Why do you forget us forever, [And] forsake us so long time?

  • Lam 3:50
    70%

    50Until Yahweh look down, and see from heaven.