God’s Word Translation
Lamentations 3:18
18I said, ‘I’ve lost my strength ⌞to live⌟ and my hope in the Lord.’
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
16He has ground my teeth with gravel. He has trampled me into the dust. 17“My soul has been kept from enjoying peace. I have forgotten what happiness is. I 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. 20My soul continues to remember ⌞these things⌟ and is so discouraged.
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 27:1David said to himself, “One of these days Saul will sweep me away. The best thing for me to do is to make sure that I escape to Philistine territory. Then Saul will give up looking all over Israel for me, and I’ll escape from him.”
- Job 6:11What strength do I have ⌞left⌟ that I can go on hoping? What goal do I have that I would want to prolong my life?
- Job 17:15then where is my hope? Can you see any hope left in me?
- Psalms 31:22When I was panic-stricken, I said, “I have been cut off from your sight.” But you heard my pleas for mercy when I cried out to you for help.
- Psalms 116:11I also said when I was panic-stricken, “Everyone is undependable.”
- Ezekiel 37:11The Lord also said to me, “Son of man, all the people of Israel are like these bones. The people say, ‘Our bones are dry, and our hope has vanished. We are completely destroyed.’
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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