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Lamentations 3:18
18I tell myself, ‘Everything good has finished for me! The things that I hoped for from the Lord have not come!’
Lamentations 3:18 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the Lord:
- New International Version (NIV)So I say, “My splendor is gone and all that I had hoped from the Lord.”
- English Standard Version (ESV)so I say, "My endurance has perished; so has my hope from the Lord."
- New King James Version (NKJV)And I said, “My strength and my hope Have perished from the Lord.”
Context of Lamentations 3:18
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. 17He has taken peace away from my mind. I cannot remember the happy days that I had before. I 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. 20I think about all those things, and I feel small and alone.
Read all of Lamentations 3Lamentations 3:18 word by word
וָאֹמַר֙ אָבַ֣ד נִצְחִ֔י וְתוֹחַלְתִּ֖י מֵיְהוָֽה׃ סRead the interlinear
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Cross-references for Lamentations 3:18
- 1 Samuel 27:1Then David thought, ‘I am sure that Saul will catch me one day. Then he will kill me. I must go to the country of the Philistines so that I will be safe from Saul. That is the best thing that I can do. When I am no longer in the land of Israel, Saul will stop looking for me here. I will escape from him.’
- Job 6:11I am not strong enough to hope for my life to become any better. There is no reason for me to continue my life.
- Job 17:15I can hope for nothing that is better than that. No one can find anything better for me.
- Psalms 31:22When I was afraid, I said, ‘God is no longer with me!’ But I spoke too soon. When I called to you for help, you heard me and you answered me.
- Psalms 116:11I was confused and I said, ‘Everybody tells lies.’
- Ezekiel 37:11Then the Lord said to me, ‘Son of man, these bones are a picture of all Israel's people. The Israelites are saying, “Our bones are dead and dry. There are no good things that we can hope for. We have come to an end.”
Commentaries on Lamentations 3:18
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 18And my hope - That first, that last support of the miserable - it is gone! it is perished! The sovereign God alone can revive 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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