Lamentations 3:18
And I said: 'My strength is perished, and mine expectation from the LORD.'
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:
In Context
17And my soul is removed far off from peace, I forgot prosperity.
19Remember mine affliction and mine anguish, the wormwood and the gall.
Cross References
Job 6:11What is my strength, that I should wait? and what is mine end, that I should be patient?
Psalms 31:22(31-23) As for me, I said in my haste: 'I am cut off from before Thine eyes'; nevertheless Thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto Thee.
Ezekiel 37:11Then He said unto me: 'Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel; behold, they say: Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are clean 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 →