Lamentations 3:18
So I say, “My strength has perished, along with my hope from the LORD.”
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:
In Context
17My soul has been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is.
19Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and the gall.
Cross References
Job 6:11What strength do I have, that I should still hope? What is my future, that I should be patient?
Psalms 31:22In my alarm I said, “I am cut off from Your sight!” But You heard my plea for mercy when I called to You for help.
Ezekiel 37:11Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Look, they are saying, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope has perished; 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 →