Lamentations 4:17
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. 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.
The verse portrays a people whose eyes failed and grew exhausted while straining toward empty assistance. In their watching they kept watching for another nation to bring deliverance. That hope proved vain, because the foreign nation they looked to had no power to rescue them. Their waiting was therefore futile, a weary outlook for salvation from a rescuer that could not save.