And what good is it that an everlasting hope has been promised us, but we have miserably failed?: Compare 1 Peter 1.3. Good News Bible offers an excellent model for this verse. One using a strong statement is:

• The hope of eternity promised to us does us no good since we have completely failed.

Quoted with permission from Bullard, Roger A. and Hatton, Howard A. A Handbook on 1-2 Esdras. (UBS Helps for Translators). Miami: UBS, 2019. For this and other handbooks for translators see here.