Strong's Hebrew English Morphology   [עודינה] [‘ō-w-ḏê-nāh Still Adverb :: third person feminine plural Adv | 3fp   ḵ]   5751 [e] (עוֹדֵ֙ינוּ֙) (‘ō-w-ḏê-nū us Adv | 1cp   q)   3615 [e] תִּכְלֶ֣ינָה tiḵ-le-nāh failed V-Qal-Imperf-3fp 5869 [e] עֵינֵ֔ינוּ ‘ê-nê-nū, our eyes N-cdc | 1cp 413 [e] אֶל־ ’el- for Prep 5833 [e] עֶזְרָתֵ֖נוּ ‘ez-rā-ṯê-nū our help N-fsc | 1cp 1892 [e] הָ֑בֶל hā-ḇel; [Watching] vainly N-ms 6822 [e] בְּצִפִּיָּתֵ֣נוּ bə-ṣip-pî-yā-ṯê-nū in our watching Prep-b | N-fsc | 1cp 6822 [e] צִפִּ֔ינוּ ṣip-pî-nū, we watched V-Piel-Perf-1cp 413 [e] אֶל־ ’el- for Prep 1471 [e] גּ֖וֹי gō-w a nation N-ms 3808 [e] לֹ֥א lō not Adv-NegPrt 3467 [e] יוֹשִֽׁעַ׃ yō-wō-ši-a‘. [that] could save [us] V-Hifil-Imperf-3ms   ס s - Punc

New American Standard Bible
Yet our eyes failed, Looking for help was useless; In our watching we have watched For a nation that could not save.

King James 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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
All the while our eyes were failing as we looked in vain for assistance; we watched from our towers for a nation that refused to help.

our eyes

Lamentations 1:19 I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and my elders …

2 Kings 24:7 And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of his land…

Isaiah 20:5 And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation, …

Isaiah 30:1-7 Woe to the rebellious children, said the LORD, that take counsel, …

Isaiah 31:1-3 Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and …

Jeremiah 2:18,36 And now what have you to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the waters …

Jeremiah 8:20 The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.

Jeremiah 30:7-10 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even …

Ezekiel 29:6,7,16 And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the LORD, because …

for a. For the Egyptians, who were their pretended allies; but who were neither able nor willing to help them.

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