Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Lamentations 4:17
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Lamentations4:17
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; Is 30:7; Jr 37:5-11).
Tzaddi.
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