Lamentations 3:18
VAU. And I said, “My end and my hope from the Lord has perished.”
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:
In Context
17VAU. And my soul has been driven away from peace; I have forgotten what is good.
19ZAIN. Remember my poverty and my transgression, the wormwood and the gall.
Cross References
Job 6:11For what is my strength, that I may continue? Or what is my goal, so that I may act patiently?
Ezekiel 37:11And he said to me: “Son of man: All these bones are the house of Israel. They say: ‘Our bones are dried out, and our hope has perished, and we have been cut off.’
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 →