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 Psalms 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. Jeremiah 2:18 ; Jeremiah 2:36 ; Jer 37:7-8