Lamentations 3:18
That's why I say, “My expectation of a long life is gone, along with all that I hoped for from the Lord.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:
In Context
17Peace has been torn away from me; I've forgotten all that's good in life.
19Don't forget everything I've suffered in my wandering, as bitter as wormwood and poison.
Cross References
Job 6:11Why should I go on waiting when I don't have the strength? Why should I keep going when I don't know what is going to happen to me?
Psalms 31:22Terrified I cried out, “I am being destroyed right in front of you!” But you heard my cry when I called out for you to help me.
Ezekiel 37:11He told me, “Son of man, these bones represent all the people of Israel. Listen to what the people are saying, ‘Our bones have dried up, and our hope has been crushed. We have been wiped out!’
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 →