Lamentations 3:17
And thou hast thrust away from welfare, my soul, I have forgotten prosperity;
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
In Context
16And he hath crushed, with gravel-stones, my teeth, hath made me cower in ashes;
18And I said, Vanished is mine endurance, even mine expectation, from Yahweh.
Cross References
Job 7:7Remember thou, that, a wind, is my life, not again shall mine eye see blessing:
Isaiah 38:17Lo! for well-being, I had bitterness—bitterness,—But, thou, cleaving unto my soul, hast raised me from the pit of corruption, For thou hast cast, behind thy back all my sins.
Isaiah 59:11We growl like bears all of us, And, like doves, do we, mournfully coo,—We wait For justice, and there is none, For salvation it is far from us!
Jeremiah 14:19Hast thou, utterly rejected, Judah? Zion itself, hath thy soul loathed? Why, hast thou smitten us so that there is for us no healing? A waiting For prosperity, but no welfare, and For a time of healing, but lo! terror!
Jeremiah 20:14Accursed, be the day on which I was born,—The day when my mother bare me, let it not be blessed!
Zechariah 8:10That, before those days, hire for man, could not be obtained, and, hire for beast, was there none,—and, neither to him who went out nor to him who came in, was there success by reason of the danger, Yea I let all men loose, each one 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 →