Lamentations 3:17
And thou have removed my soul far off from peace. I forgot prosperity.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
In Context
16He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones. He has covered me with ashes.
18And I said, My strength is perished, and my expectation from LORD.
Cross References
Job 7:7O remember that my life is a breath. My eye shall no more see good.
Isaiah 38:17Behold, for peace I had great bitterness. But thou have by love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption. For thou have cast all my sins behind thy back.
Isaiah 59:11We all roar like bears, and moan greatly like doves. We look for justice, but there is none, for salvation, but it is far off from us.
Jeremiah 14:19Have thou utterly rejected Judah? Has thy soul loathed Zion? Why have thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came, and for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay!
Jeremiah 20:14Cursed be the day in which I was born. Let not the day in which my mother bore me be blessed.
Zechariah 8:10For before those days there was no wage for man, nor any wage for beast, nor was there any peace to him who went out or came in, because of the adversary. For I set all men each one against his neighbor.
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 3:2-21
The Prophet's Personal Affliction. ( b. c. 588.) 1 I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. 2 He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light. 3 Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day. 4 My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones. 5 He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail. 6 He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old. 7 He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath… Read the whole commentary →