Lamentations 3:17
Vau. And my soul is removed far off from peace, I have forgotten good things.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
In Context
16Vau. And he hath broken my teeth one by one, he hath fed me with ashes.
18Vau. And I said: My end and my hope is perished from the Lord.
Cross References
Job 7:7Remember that my life is but wind, and my eyes shall not return to see good things.
Isaiah 38:17Behold in peace is my bitterness most bitter: but thou best delivered my soul that it should not perish, thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
Isaiah 59:11We shall roar all of us like bears, and shall lament as mournful doves. We have looked for judgment, and there is none: for salvation, and it is far from us.
Jeremiah 14:19Hast thou utterly cast away Juda, or hath thy soul abhorred Sion? why then hast thou struck us, so that there is no healing for us? we have looked for peace, and there is no good: and for the time of healing, and behold trouble.
Jeremiah 20:14Cursed be the day wherein I was borne: let not the day in which my mother bore me, be blessed.
Zechariah 8:10For before those days there was no hire for men, neither was there hire for beasts, neither was there peace to him that came in, nor to him that went out, because of the tribulation: and I let all men go 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 →