Lamentations 3:18
I said, “My strength has perished, along with my expectation from the LORD.”
World English Bible British
In The King James Version
And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:
In Context
17You have removed my soul far away from peace. I forgot prosperity.
19Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the bitterness.
Cross References
Job 6:11What is my strength, that I should wait? What is my end, that I should be patient?
Psalms 31:22As for me, I said in my haste, “I am cut off from before your eyes.” Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.
Ezekiel 37:11Then he said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost. We are completely 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 →