Lamentations 3:18
Vau. And I said: My end and my hope is perished from the Lord.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:
In Context
17Vau. And my soul is removed far off from peace, I have forgotten good things.
19Zain. Remember my poverty, and transgression, the wormwood, and the gall.
Cross References
Job 6:11For what is my strength, that I can hold out? or what is my end that I should keep patience?
Psalms 31:22Blessed be the Lord, for he hath shewn his wonderful mercy to me in a fortified city.
Ezekiel 37:11And he said to me: Son of man: All these bones are the house of Israel : they say: Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost, and we are 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 →