Lamentations 3:17
And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I have forgotten prosperity.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
In Context
16He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
18And I said, My strength is perished, and my hope in Jehovah.
Cross References
Job 7:7Remember thou that my life is wind; mine eye shall no more see good.
Isaiah 38:17Behold, instead of peace I had bitterness upon bitterness; but thou hast in love delivered my soul from the pit of destruction; for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
Isaiah 59:11We roar all like bears, and mourn grievously like doves: we look for judgment, and there is none; for salvation, [but] it is far from us.
Jeremiah 14:19Hast thou then utterly rejected Judah? Doth thy soul loathe Zion? Why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? Peace is looked for, and there is no good, and a time of healing, and behold terror!
Jeremiah 20:14Cursed be the day wherein I was born; let not the day wherein my mother bore me be blessed!
Zechariah 8:10For before those days there was no hire for man, nor any hire for beast; and there was no peace for him that went out or that came in, because of the distress: for I let loose all men, every one 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 →