Lamentations 3:17
He has also removed my soul from peace: 1 I forgot prosperity. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
In Context
16And he has dashed out my teeth with gravel, 1 He has fed me with ashes. 1
18Therefore my success has perished, 1 And my hope from the Lord. 1
Cross References
Job 7:7Remember then that my life is breath, 1 And mine eye shall not yet again see good. 1
Isaiah 38:17For thou hast chosen my soul, that it should not perish: and thou hast cast all my sins behind me.
Isaiah 59:11They shall proceed together as a bear and as a dove: we have waited for judgment, and there is no salvation, it is gone far from us.
Jeremiah 14:19Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? and has thy soul departed from Zion? wherefore hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we waited for peace, but there was no prosperity; for a time of healing, and behold trouble!
Jeremiah 20:14Cursed be the day wherein I was born: the day wherein my mother brought me forth, let it not be blessed.
Zechariah 8:10For before those days the wages of men could not be profitable, and there could be no hire of cattle, and there could be no peace by reason of the affliction to him that went out or to him that came in: for I would have 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 →