Lamentations 3:18
And I said, Vanished is mine endurance, even mine expectation, from Yahweh.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:
In Context
17And thou hast thrust away from welfare, my soul, I have forgotten prosperity;
19Remember my humiliation and my fleeings, the wormwood and poison;
Cross References
Job 6:11What is my strength, that I should hope? Or what mine end, that I should prolong my desire?
Psalms 31:22But, I, had said in mine alarm, I am cut off from before thine eyes,—But, indeed, thou didst hear the voice of my supplication, when I cried for help unto thee.
Ezekiel 37:11Then said he unto me, Son of man. These bones, are all the house of Israel,— Lo! they are saying. Dried are our bones, and lost is our hope We are quite 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 →