Lam 4:17 | JFB | STEP | 17. As for us —This translation forms the best antithesis to the language of the heathen ( ). CALVIN translates, "While as yet we stood as a state, our eyes failed," &c. watched for a nation that could not save us

Lamentations 4:17

17. As for us—This translation forms the best antithesis to the language of the heathen (La 4:15, 16). CALVIN translates, "While as yet we stood as a state, our eyes failed," &c.

watched for a nation that could not save us—Egypt (2Ki 24:7; Isa 30:7; Jer 37:5-11).

Tzaddi.