Lamentations 4:17 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ 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. ”

Lamentations 4:17 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A rapid sketch of the last days of the siege and the capture of the king. Lamentations 4:17 Rather, “Still do our eyes waste away looking for our vain help.” In our watching - Or, “on our...
Lamentations 4:17 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for (l) a nation [that] could not save [us]. (l) He shows two principal causes for their destruction: their cruel...
Lamentations 4:17 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 4. The Fourth Lament. This has less literary finish than Lamentations 4:3 , and it has also less spiritual value. It lacks much of the saints whom one seems to see in Lamentations 4:...
Lamentations 4:17 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Here the Prophet charges the people with another crime, that neglecting God, and even despising his favor, they had always attached themselves to vain and false hopes. And this was a sacrilege...
Lamentations 4:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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 . We have watched for a nation - Viz., the Egyptians, who were their preten...
Lamentations 4:17 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

As for us, our eyes as yet failed— While we yet continued, our eyes failed with the vain expectation of help. Houbigant.
Lamentations 4:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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. As for us, our eyes as yet failed - or, rather, 'fail.' This translati...
Lamentations 4:17 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Zion's former Glory contrasted with her present Humiliation In this fourth dirge the poet describes the miseries of the various classes in the sack of Jerusalem, concluding with a warning to Edom....
Lamentations 4:17 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

As for us... — Better, Still do our eyes waste away, looking for our vain help. In our watching. — Better, upon our watch-tower. (Comp. Habakkuk 2:1 .) The people of Judah are represented a...
Lamentations 4:17 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

VAIN HOPES Lamentations 4:17-20 THE first part of the fourth elegy was specially concerned with the fate of the gilded youth of Jerusalem; the second and closely parallel part with that of the...
Lamentations 4:17 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The fourth poem is for the most part a dirge of desolation, which nevertheless ends in a song of hope. Jeremiah first described the disaster in Zion, declaring that it all arose as the result of the...
Lamentations 4:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her, They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselve...
Lamentations 4:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help ,.... Or, "while we were yet" h; a nation, a people, a body politic, in our own land, before the city of Jerusalem was taken, we were looking for...
Lamentations 4:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

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 loo...
Lamentations 4:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 aga...
Lamentations 4:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Cause of Jerusalem's Sorrows. B. C. 588. 13 For the sins of her prophets, and the in...
Lamentations 4:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

That is, in expectation of the Egyptians, whom they waited for to raise the siege; it was a long time before they came, and When they did come, they could do them no service at all, Jeremiah 37:5,7...
Lamentations 4:17 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Jerusalem's Predicament Was Largely Due To The Priests And The Prophets Who Would Suffer Accordingly ( Lamentations 4:12-17 ). The prophet now draws attention to the fact of how much of Jerusalem'...
Lamentations 4:17 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

EXEGETICAL NOTES. — (ע) Lamentations 4:17 refers to the persons remaining in the city, who, notwithstanding that God’s righteous judgments had so afflicted prophets and priests, yet thought long...
Lamentations 4:17 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Lamentations 4:1 . How is the gold, זהב zahab, so called because of its superior lustre to other metals, now become dim. Gold does not oxidize, and scarcely receives a tarnish; yet the rulers...
Lamentations 4:17 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

THE SUFFERINGS OF JERUSALEM ; NO CLASS IS EXEMPT . EDOM 'S TRIUMPHING . EXPOSITION Lamentations 4:1 How is the gold become dim!… the stones of the sanctuary, etc. "Alas f...
Lamentations 4:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

God's Judgment a Consequence of the Sins of the Prophets and Priests
Lamentations 4:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Kings 24:7 ; Ezekiel 29:16 ; Ezekiel 29:6 ; Ezekiel 29:7 ; Isaiah 20:5 ; Isaiah 30:1-7 ; Isaiah 31:1-3 ; Jeremiah 2:18 ; Jeremiah 2:36 ; Jeremiah 37:7-10 ; Jeremiah 8:20 ; Lamentations...
Lamentations 4:17 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

A nation — The Egyptians.

Lamentations 4:17 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Lamentations 4:17 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Lamentations 4:17 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 4:17 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 4:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Lamentations 4:17 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Lamentations 4:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Lamentations 4:17 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 4:17 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Lamentations 4:17 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Lamentations 4:17 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Lamentations 4:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Lamentations 4:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Lamentations 4:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Lamentations 4:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Lamentations 4:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Lamentations 4:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Lamentations 4:17 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 4:17 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Lamentations 4:17 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Lamentations 4:17 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Lamentations 4:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Lamentations 4:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Lamentations 4:17 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes