God’s Word Translation
Lamentations 3:17
17“My soul has been kept from enjoying peace. I have forgotten what happiness is.
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
15He has filled me with bitterness. He has made me drink wormwood. 16He has ground my teeth with gravel. He has trampled me into the dust. “My soul has been kept from enjoying peace. I have forgotten what happiness is. 18I said, ‘I’ve lost my strength ⌞to live⌟ and my hope in the Lord.’ 19Remember my suffering and my ⌞aimless⌟ wandering, the wormwood and poison.
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 1:16I’m crying because of ⌞all⌟ these things. My eyes—my eyes flow with tears. No one can give me the comfort I need to keep me alive. Everyone is too far away from me. My children are devastated because my enemies have won.”
- Psalms 119:155Wicked people are far from being saved, because they have not searched for your laws.
- Isaiah 38:17Now my bitter experience turns into peace. You have saved me and kept me from the rotting pit. You have thrown all my sins behind you.
- Isaiah 54:10The mountains may move, and the hills may shake, but my kindness will never depart from you. My promise of peace will never change,” says the Lord, who has compassion on you.
- Isaiah 59:11We all growl like bears. We coo like doves. We hope for justice, but there is none. We hope for salvation, but it’s far from us.
- Jeremiah 8:15We hoped for peace, but nothing good has happened. We hoped for a time of healing, but there’s only terror.
- Jeremiah 14:19Have you completely rejected Judah? Do you despise Zion? Why have you struck us so hard that we cannot heal? We hope for peace, but no good comes from it. We hope for a time of healing, but there’s only terror.
- Jeremiah 16:5“This is what the Lord says: Don’t go into a house where people are grieving. Don’t go to mourn or to grieve for them. I’m taking my peace, love, and compassion away from these people,” declares the Lord.
- Zechariah 8:10Before that time there was no money to hire any person or animal. No one who traveled was safe from the enemy. I turned every person against his neighbor.
- Genesis 41:30After them will come seven years of famine. People will forget that there was plenty of food in Egypt, and the famine will ruin the land.
- Job 7:7Remember, my life is only a breath, and never again will my eyes see anything good.
- Jeremiah 20:14Cursed is the day that I was born, the day that my mother gave birth to me. May it not be blessed.
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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