Our eyes do yet fail [in looking] for our vain help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.
"Our eyes do yet fail in looking for our vain help ... a nation that could not save"  (Lamentations 4:17).  Zedekiah, the last king of Israel to reign in Jerusalem, had violated his oath of loyalty to Nebuchadnezzar and secretly hoped that Egypt would help Israel; but Egypt would not have helped Israel if she could have done it, and could not have done so even if she had desired to do it.