Lamentations 3:18
And I say, “My confidence and my hope in Jehovah are gone!”
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:
In Context
17Yea, thou hast removed my soul far from peace; I have forgotten prosperity.
19Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall!
Cross References
Job 6:11What is my strength, that I should hope? And what mine end, that I should be patient?
Psalms 31:22I said in my distress, “I am cut off from before thine eyes;” But thou didst hear the voice of my supplication, When I cried unto thee.
Ezekiel 37:11And he said to me, Son of man, these bones denote the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, “Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost, and we are cut off.”
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 →