Lamentations 3:17
My soul is sent far away from peace, I have no more memory of good.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
In Context
16By him my teeth have been broken with crushed stones, and I am bent low in the dust.
18And I said, My strength is cut off, and my hope from the Lord.
Cross References
Job 7:7O, keep in mind that my life is wind: my eye will never again see good.
Isaiah 38:17See, in place of peace my soul had bitter sorrow. but you have kept back my soul from the underworld; for you have put all my sins out of your memory.
Isaiah 59:11We make noises of grief, like bears, and sad sounds like doves: we are looking for our right, but it is not there; for salvation, but it is far from us.
Jeremiah 14:19Have you completely given up Judah? is your soul turned in disgust from Zion? why have you given us blows from which there is no one to make us well? we were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there was only a great fear.
Jeremiah 20:14A curse on the day of my birth: let there be no blessing on the day when my mother had me.
Zechariah 8:10For before those days there was no payment for a man's work, or for the use of a beast, and there was no peace for him who went out or him who came in, because of the attacker: for I had every man turned against his neighbour.
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 →