Lamentations 3:17
And my soul hath given up all thoughts of peace: I forget happiness.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
In Context
16He hath also broken my teeth with gravel-stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
18And I said, Lost is my strength, my expectation also from the Lord.
Cross References
Job 7:7Oh remember that nothing but a breath is my life; that my eye will not again see happiness;
Isaiah 38:17Behold, for peace I had great bitterness; but thou hast, in loving my soul, delivered it from the pit of corruption; for thou hast cast behind thy back all my sins.
Isaiah 59:11We growl all of us like bears, and like doves do we moan sorely; we ever hope for justice, but there is none; for aid, but it is far from us.
Jeremiah 14:19Hast thou entirely rejected Judah? or hath thy soul loathing on Zion? why hast thou smitten us, so that there is no healing for us? we hoped for peace, and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold, there is terror!
Jeremiah 20:14Cursed be the day whereon I was born: the day on which my mother bore me shall not be blessed.
Zechariah 8:10For before those days there was no reward for man, nor any reward for beast; and for him that went out or came in there was no peace, because of the oppressor: and I let loose all men, every one against his neighbor.
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 →