Lamentations 3:17
You have removed my soul far away from peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is.
New Heart English Bible
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 pressed me down in the dust.
18And I said, "My strength and my hope has perished from the Lord."ZAYIN
Cross References
Job 7:7Oh remember that my life is a breath.My eye shall 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 roar all like bears, and moan bitterly like doves: we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
Jeremiah 14:19"Have 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: do not 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 neighbor.
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 →