Lamentations 3:17
And Thou hast removed my nefesh far off from shalom; 1 I forgot tovah (prosperity). 1
Orthodox Jewish 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, 1 He hath covered me with aphar. 1
18And I said: My strength and my hope 1 is perished from Hashem. 1
Cross References
Job 7:7O remember that my life is ruach (wind); 1 mine eye shall no more see tov. 1
Isaiah 38:17Hinei, for shalom (benefit) did I have great bitterness; 1 for Thou hast in love to my nefesh 1 delivered it from the shachat (pit) of destruction; 1 for Thou hast cast 1 all my chatta'im behind Thy back. 1
Isaiah 59:11We all growl like dubim (bears), 1 and moan continually like yonim (doves); 1 we look for mishpat, but there is none; 1 for Yeshu'ah (Salvation), but it is far off from us. 1
Jeremiah 14:19Hast Thou utterly rejected Yehudah? 1 Hath Thy nefesh loathed Tziyon? 1 Why hast Thou afflicted us, 1 and there is no healing for us? 1 We hoped for shalom, and there is no tov; 1 and for the time of healing, and hinei terror! 1
Jeremiah 20:14Arur (cursed) be the day 1 wherein I was born; 1 let not the day wherein immi bore me 1 yehi baruch (be blessed). 1
Zechariah 8:10For before these days there was no sachar for man, nor any sachar for beast; neither was there any shalom to him that went out or came in because of the tzar (oppressor); for I set 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 →