Lamentations 3:17
You have removed my soul far away from peace. I forgot prosperity.
World English Bible British
In The King James Version
And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
In Context
16He has also broken my teeth with gravel. He has covered me with ashes.
18I said, “My strength has perished, along with my expectation from the LORD.”
Cross References
Job 7:7Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye will no more see good.
Isaiah 38:17Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my sins behind your back.
Isaiah 59:11We all roar like bears and moan sadly like doves. We look for justice, but there is none, for salvation, but it is far off from us.
Jeremiah 14:19Have you utterly rejected Judah? Has your soul loathed Zion? Why have you struck us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and behold, dismay!
Jeremiah 20:14Cursed is the day in which I was born. Don’t let the day in which my mother bore me be blessed.
Zechariah 8:10For before those days there was no wages for man nor any wages for an animal, neither was there any peace to him who went out or came in, because of the adversary. For I set all men everyone against his neighbour.
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 →