Lamentations 3:17
15 He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood.
16 He has ground my teeth with gravel and trampled me in the dust.
My soul has been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is.
18 So I say, “My strength has perished, along with my hope from the LORD.”
19 Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and the gall.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- My soul has been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is.
- KJV
- And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
- WEB
- You have removed my soul far away from peace. I forgot prosperity.
- ASV
- And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace; I forgat prosperity.
- DARBY
- And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I have forgotten prosperity.
- BLB
- My soul has been rejected from peace; I have forgotten good,
- ÅB
- Du forkastet meg og tok bort min fred; jeg glemte det som godt er,
- OTB
- Min sjel kjenner ingen fred; og jeg har glemt hva lykke er.
- B1930
- Du forkastet mig og tok bort min fred; jeg glemte det som godt er,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Isaiah 59:11
We all growl like bears and moan like doves. We hope for justice, but find none, for salvation, but it is far from us.
Read in contextGenesis 41:30
but seven years of famine will follow them. Then all the abundance in the land of Egypt will be forgotten, and the famine will devastate the land.
Read in contextLamentations 1:16
For these things I weep; my eyes flow with tears. For there is no one nearby to comfort me, no one to revive my soul. My children are destitute because the enemy has prevailed.
Read in contextIsaiah 38:17
Surely for my own welfare I had such great anguish; but Your love has delivered me from the pit of oblivion, for You have cast all my sins behind Your back.
Read in contextJeremiah 8:15
We hoped for peace, but no good has come, for a time of healing, but there was only terror.
Read in contextJeremiah 14:19
Have You rejected Judah completely? Do You despise Zion? Why have You stricken us so that we are beyond healing? We hoped for peace, but no good has come, and for the time of healing, but there was only terror.
Read in contextJob 7:7
Remember that my life is but a breath. My eyes will never again see happiness.
Read in contextIsaiah 54:10
Though the mountains may be removed and the hills may be shaken, My loving devotion will not depart from you, and My covenant of peace will not be broken,” says the LORD, who has compassion on you.
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