Lamentations 4:17

NIV: Moreover, our eyes failed, looking in vain for help; from our towers we watched for a nation that could not save us.

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

KJV: 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.

GWT: "We are still straining our eyes, trying in vain to find help. We waited and waited for a nation that didn't save us.

ASV: Our eyes do yet fail in looking for our vain help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.

BBE: Our eyes are still wasting away in looking for our false help: we have been watching for a nation unable to give salvation.

DBY: Our eyes still failed for our vain help; in our watching, we have watched for a nation that did not save.

DRB: Ain. While we were yet standing, our eyes failed, expecting help for us in vain, when we looked attentively towards a nation that was not able to save.

WBS: 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.

WEB: Our eyes do yet fail [in looking] for our vain help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.

YLT: While we exist -- consumed are our eyes for our vain help, In our watch-tower we have watched for a nation that saveth not.