Lamentations 3:18
Therefore my success has perished, 1 And my hope from the Lord. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:
In Context
17He has also removed my soul from peace: 1 I forgot prosperity. 1
Cross References
Job 6:11For what is my strength, that I continue? 1 What is my time, that my soul endures? 1
Ezekiel 37:11And the Lord spoke to me, saying, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: and they say, Our bones are become dry, our hope has perished, we are quite spent.
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 →