Lamentations 3:17
And You cast off my soul from peace, || I have forgotten prosperity.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
In Context
16And He breaks with gravel my teeth, || He has covered me with ashes.
18And I say, My strength and my hope have perished from YHWH.
Cross References
Job 7:7Remember that my life [is] a breath, || My eye does not turn back to see good.
Isaiah 38:17Behold, He changed bitterness to peace for me, || And You have delighted in my soul without corruption, || For You have cast all my sins behind Your back.
Isaiah 59:11We make a noise as bears—all of us, || And we coo severely as doves; We wait for judgment, and there is none, || For salvation—it has been far from us.
Jeremiah 14:19Have You utterly rejected Judah? Has Your soul loathed Zion? Why have You struck us, || And there is no healing to us? Looking for peace, and there is no good, || And for a time of healing, and behold, terror.
Jeremiah 20:14Cursed [is] the day in which I was born, || The day that my mother bore me, || Let it not be blessed!
Zechariah 8:10For before those days there has been no hiring of man, || Indeed, a hiring of beasts there is none; And to him who is going out, || And to him who is coming in, || There is no peace because of the adversary, || And I send all men—each 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 →