17 Call the name of (A)Pharaoh, king of Egypt,
    ‘Noisy one who lets the hour go by.’

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17 There they will exclaim,
    ‘Pharaoh king of Egypt is only a loud noise;(A)
    he has missed his opportunity.(B)

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(A)And the king of Egypt did not come again out of his land, (B)for the king of Babylon had taken all that belonged to the king of Egypt (C)from the Brook of Egypt to the river Euphrates.

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The king of Egypt(A) did not march out from his own country again, because the king of Babylon(B) had taken all his territory, from the Wadi of Egypt to the Euphrates River.

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17 (A)Our eyes failed, ever watching
    (B)vainly for help;
in our watching we watched
    for (C)a nation which could not save.

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17 Moreover, our eyes failed,
    looking in vain(A) for help;(B)
from our towers we watched
    for a nation(C) that could not save us.

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