Lamentations 3:17
My soul has been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
In Context
16He has ground my teeth with gravel and trampled me in the dust.
18So I say, “My strength has perished, along with my hope from the LORD.”
Cross References
Job 7:7Remember that my life is but a breath. My eyes will never again see happiness.
Isaiah 38:17Surely for my own welfare I had such great anguish; but Your love has delivered me from the pit of oblivion, for You have cast all my sins behind Your back.
Isaiah 59:11We all growl like bears and moan like doves. We hope for justice, but find none, for salvation, but it is far from us.
Jeremiah 14:19Have You rejected Judah completely? Do You despise Zion? Why have You stricken us so that we are beyond healing? We hoped for peace, but no good has come, and for the time of healing, but there was only terror.
Jeremiah 20:14Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me never be blessed.
Zechariah 8:10For before those days neither man nor beast received wages, nor was there safety from the enemy for anyone who came or went, for I had turned every man 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 →