Lamentations 3:17
Peace has been torn away from me; I've forgotten all that's good in life.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
In Context
16He has broken my teeth with grit; he has trampled me in the dust.
Cross References
Job 7:7Remember that my life is just a breath; I will not see happiness again.
Isaiah 38:17It was definitely for my own good I went through this bitter experience. You in your love saved me from the pit of destruction and you have forgiven all my sins.
Isaiah 59:11All of us growl like bears and coo like doves as we wait for justice to be done, but it never happens; we wait for salvation, but never receive it.
Jeremiah 14:19Have you really rejected Judah? Do you hate Zion so much? Why have you wounded us so badly that we can't be healed? We hoped for peace, but instead nothing good has come; we hoped for a time of healing, but instead there was only sudden terror.
Jeremiah 20:14May the day I was born be cursed! May the day my mother gave birth to me never be blessed!
Zechariah 8:10Before that time there wasn't enough for people or for animals. No one could live normally because they were not safe from their enemies, and I set everyone against each other.
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 →