Lamentations 3:17
VAU. And my soul has been driven away from peace; I have forgotten what is good.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
In Context
16VAU. And he has broken each one of my teeth; he has fed me with ashes.
18VAU. And I said, “My end and my hope from the Lord has perished.”
Cross References
Job 7:7Remember that my life is wind, and my eye will not return to see good things.
Isaiah 38:17Behold, in peace my bitterness is most bitter. But you have rescued my soul, so that it would not perish. You have cast all my sins behind your back.
Isaiah 59:11We will all roar like bears, and we will sigh like despondent doves. We hoped for judgment, and there is none; for salvation, and it is far from us.
Jeremiah 14:19Could you have utterly cast out Judah? Or has your soul abhorred Zion? Then why have you struck us, so much so that there is no health for us? We have waited for peace, but there is nothing good, and for the time of healing, and behold, trouble.
Jeremiah 20:14Cursed is the day on which I was born! The day on which my mother gave birth to me: let it not be blessed!
Zechariah 8:10Indeed, before those days, there was no pay for men, nor was there pay for beasts of burden, and neither was there peace for those entering, nor for those exiting, because of the tribulation. And I had dismissed 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 →