Lamentations 3:18
So I say, “My endurance has perished and so has my hope in Yahweh.” 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:
In Context
17My soul is deprived of peace; I have forgotten what happiness is. 1
19Remember my affliction and my wanderings, the wormwood and bitterness. 1
Cross References
Job 6:11What is my strength, that I should try to wait? 1 What is my end, that I should prolong my life? 1
Psalms 31:22Though I said in my haste, 1 “I am cut off from your eyes,” 1 yet you heard my plea for help 1 when I cried to you. 1
Ezekiel 37:11Then Yahweh said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the entire house of Israel. Behold! They are saying, 'Our bones have dried up, and our hope is gone. We have been 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 →