Lamentations 3:18
And I say, My strength and my hope have perished from YHWH.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:
In Context
17And You cast off my soul from peace, || I have forgotten prosperity.
19Remember my affliction and my mourning, || Wormwood and gall!
Cross References
Job 6:11What [is] my power that I should hope? And what [is] my end that I should prolong my life?
Psalms 31:22And I have said in my haste, “I have been cut off from before Your eyes,” || But You have heard the voice of my supplications, || In my crying to You.
Ezekiel 37:11And He says to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel; behold, they are saying, Our bones have dried up, || And our hope has perished, || We have been cut off by ourselves.
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 →