Lamentations 4:17 - Exposition

As for us, our eyes, etc.; rather (correcting the reading of the first word), Our eyes were still wasting away ( as we looked ) for our help in vain. To the very last the Jews leaned on "that broken reed," Egypt ( Isaiah 36:6 ); how vain that hope would be Jeremiah had already told them ( Jeremiah 37:7 , Jeremiah 37:8 ). In our watching; i.e. earnestly and continually; or, on our watchtower.