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 pretended allies, but were neither able nor wilting to help them against the Chaldeans.
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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.