As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help] Or, while yet we were, our eyes failed in looking for, &c. as Psalms 119:82. 123. So long as our state stood, and we were not as yet surprised, we lived in expectation of succour from abroad. Jeremiah 4:14. &Jeremiah 8:20. in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us] Or, we watched long; or, earnestly (Isaiah 21:5.) for a nation that could not, (Heb. will not, or, shall not) save. as Job 15:3. Jeremiah 2:11. &Jeremiah 7:8. The Egyptians. Isaiah 20:5-6. Jer. 2. 18, 36. &37. 7, 8. 2 Kings 24:7.