Lamentations 3:17
And Thou castest off from peace my soul, I have forgotten prosperity.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
In Context
16And He breaketh with gravel my teeth, He hath covered me with ashes.
18And I say, Perished hath my strength and my hope from Jehovah.
Cross References
Job 7:7Remember Thou that my life [is] a breath, Mine eye turneth not back to see good.
Isaiah 38:17Lo, to peace He changed for me bitterness, And Thou hast delighted in my soul without corruption, For Thou hast cast behind Thy back all my sins.
Isaiah 59:11We make a noise as bears — all of us, And as doves we coo sorely; We wait for judgment, and there is none, For salvation — it hath been far from us.
Jeremiah 14:19Hast Thou utterly rejected Judah? Zion hath Thy soul loathed? Wherefore hast Thou smitten us, And there is no healing to us? Looking for peace, and there is no good, And for a time of healing, and lo, terror.
Jeremiah 20:14Cursed [is] the day in which I was born, The day that my mother bare me, Let it not be blessed!
Zechariah 8:10For, before those days there hath been no hiring of man, Yea, a hiring of beasts there is none; And to him who is going out, And to him who is coming in, There is no peace because of the adversary, And I send all men — each 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 →