Lamentations 3:18
And I said, My strength is cut off, and my hope from the Lord.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:
In Context
17My soul is sent far away from peace, I have no more memory of good.
19Keep in mind my trouble and my wandering, the bitter root and the poison.
Cross References
Job 6:11Have I strength to go on waiting, or have I any end to be looking forward to?
Psalms 31:22\31:21\May the Lord be praised, because he has made clear to me the wonder of his grace in a strong town.
Ezekiel 37:11Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones are all the children of Israel: and see, they are saying, Our bones have become dry our hope is gone, we are cut off completely.
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 →