Lamentations 3:18
And I said: My strength and my hope 1 is perished from Hashem. 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:
In Context
17And Thou hast removed my nefesh far off from shalom; 1 I forgot tovah (prosperity). 1
19Remember mine oni (affliction) and my misery, 1 the sorrow and the trouble. 1
Cross References
Job 6:11What is my koach, that I should wait? 1 And what is mine end, that I should make patient my nefesh? 1
Psalms 31:22Baruch Hashem! For He hath showed me 1 His wondrous chesed in an Ir Matzor (besieged city). 1
Ezekiel 37:11Then He said unto me, Ben Adam, these atzmot are the kol Bais Yisroel. Hinei, they say, Our atzmot are dried up, and tikvateinu (our hope) is gone; nigzarnu lanu (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 →