Lamentations 3:17
Yea, thou hast removed my soul far from peace; I have forgotten prosperity.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
In Context
16He hath also broken my teeth with gravel-stones; He hath covered me with ashes.
18And I say, “My confidence and my hope in Jehovah are gone!”
Cross References
Job 7:7O remember that my life is a breath; That mine eye shall no more see good!
Isaiah 38:17Behold, my anguish is changed into ease; In love thou hast delivered me from the pit of destruction; Thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
Isaiah 59:11We groan, all of us, like bears, And like doves we make a continued moan; We look for judgment, and it cometh not; For salvation, and it is far from us.
Jeremiah 14:19Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? Doth thy soul abhor Zion? Why hast thou smitten us, so that there is no healing for us! We look for peace, and there is no good, For a time of healing, and behold, terror!
Jeremiah 20:14Cursed be the day on which I was born; Let not the day on which my mother bore me be blessed!
Zechariah 8:10For before these days There was no recompense for men, Nor was there any recompense for beasts; Nor to him that went out, nor to him that came in, was there security from the enemy; For I set all men one against another.
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 →