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Lamentations 3:17
17He has taken peace away from my mind. I cannot remember the happy days that I had before.
Lamentations 3:17 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
- New International Version (NIV)I have been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is.
- English Standard Version (ESV)my soul is bereft of peace; I have forgotten what happiness is;
- New King James Version (NKJV)You have moved my soul far from peace; I have forgotten prosperity.
Context of Lamentations 3:17
15God has caused my life to become a thing of pain. It is as if he filled a cup with a very bitter drink for me. 16It is as if he caused me to eat small stones, so that the stones broke my teeth. Then he put me on the ground, and he pushed me down in the dirt. He has taken peace away from my mind. I cannot remember the happy days that I had before. 18I tell myself, ‘Everything good has finished for me! The things that I hoped for from the Lord have not come!’ 19Lord, please remember all my troubles, because I am sad. Remember that I am very lonely. My troubles are like poison for me.
Read all of Lamentations 3Lamentations 3:17 word by word
וַתִּזְנַ֧ח מִשָּׁל֛וֹם נַפְשִׁ֖י נָשִׁ֥יתִי טוֹבָֽה׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Lamentations 3:17
- Lamentations 1:16We weep because of these things. Tears run down our faces because God is not with us. Nobody will help us. We are the children of this city and we have nothing now. The enemy has won.’
- Psalms 119:155Wicked people do not obey your rules, so their lives will never be safe.
- Isaiah 38:17Yes, it was good for me to have this trouble. You rescued me from the deep hole of death. You removed my sins, and you put them behind your back.
- Isaiah 54:10The mountains may shake to pieces, and the hills may disappear. But I will never take my love away from you. My covenant that brings peace between us will never finish.’ That is what the Lord who is very kind to you says.
- Isaiah 59:11We all make a noise, like hungry bears. We make sad noises, like doves. We are waiting for God to bring justice to us, but nothing is happening. We look for his salvation, but it is still far away.
- Jeremiah 8:15We wanted to have peace, but nothing good has happened to us. We wanted to rest without trouble, but instead we are afraid.
- Jeremiah 14:19‘Lord, have you completely turned away from the people of Judah? Do you really hate the people of Zion? You have knocked us down so that we will never get better. We hoped to live in peace, but nothing good happened to us. We hoped to have rest from our troubles, but instead we live in fear.
- Jeremiah 16:5The Lord also said to me, ‘Do not go into a house where they are eating a funeral meal. Do not join with them to weep because someone in the family has died. I have removed my blessing and my faithful love from these people. I will no longer be kind to them. That is what I say.
- Zechariah 8:10Before that time, there was not enough money to pay for work that men or animals did. No man was safe from the enemy because I made all men angry with each other.’
- Genesis 41:30But then seven years of famine will follow. People will forget about the seven years when they had plenty of food. The famine will destroy the land of Egypt.
- Job 7:7Remember, God, that my life is as short as a breath. I know that I will never be happy again.
- Jeremiah 20:14I would like to curse the day that I was born. That day was not a happy day, the day that my mother gave birth to me.
Commentaries on Lamentations 3:17
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 17Those hast removed my soul - Prosperity is at such an utter distance from me, that it is impossible I should ever reach it; and as to happiness, I have forgotten whether I have ever tasted of it.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 10-18Verses 10-18 Having dwelt upon the difficulties which hemmed in his path, he now shows that there are dangers attending upon escape. Lamentations 3:11 The meaning is, “God, as a lion, lying in wait, has made me turn aside from my path, but my flight was in vain, for springing upon me from His ambush lie has torn me in pieces.” Desolate - Or, astonied, stupefied that he cannot flee. The word is a favorite one with Jeremiah. Lamentations 3:12 This new…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-24The author speaks of the suffering of Judah and Jerusalem as his own.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 16-1816-18. gravel--referring to the grit that often mixes with bread baked in ashes, as is the custom of baking in the East (Pr 20:17). We fare as hardly as those who eat such bread. The same allusion is in "Covered me with ashes," namely, as bread.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Lamentations 3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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