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 37:5,7,8.
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Lamentations 4:17
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.