Lamentations 3:18
And I saide, My strength and mine hope is perished from the Lord,
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:
In Context
17Thus my soule was farre off from peace: I forgate prosperitie,
19Remembring mine affliction, and my mourning, the wormewood and the gall.
Cross References
Job 6:11What power haue I that I should endure? or what is mine end, if I should prolong my life?
Psalms 31:22Though I said in mine haste, I am cast out of thy sight, yet thou heardest the voyce of my prayer, when I cryed vnto thee.
Ezekiel 37:11Then he sayd vnto me, Sonne of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is gone, and we are cleane 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 →