Lamentations 4:17 Made Simple

KJV ORIGINAL

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.

Close to the original. Clear modern English.

✦ MADE SIMPLE

We kept looking and looking until our eyes were tired, waiting for help that was never real. We put all our hope in a country that couldn't actually save us.

⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE

Sometimes the help we're desperately waiting for was never coming in the first place.

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