New English Translation
Lamentations 3:17
17I am deprived of 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 given me my fill of bitter herbs and made me drunk with bitterness. ו (Vav) 16He ground my teeth in gravel; he trampled me in the dust. I am deprived of peace; I have forgotten what happiness is. 18So I said, “My endurance has expired; I have lost all hope of deliverance from the Lord.” ז (Zayin) 19Remember my impoverished and homeless condition, which is a bitter 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 weep because of these things; my eyes flow with tears. For there is no one in sight who can comfort me or encourage me. My children are desolated because an enemy has prevailed. פ (Pe)
- Psalms 119:155The wicked have no chance for deliverance, for they do not seek your statutes.
- Isaiah 38:17“Look, the grief I experienced was for my benefit. You delivered me from the pit of oblivion. For you removed all my sins from your sight.
- Isaiah 54:10Even if the mountains are removed and the hills displaced, my devotion will not be removed from you, nor will my covenant of friendship be displaced,” says the Lord, the one who has compassion on you.
- Isaiah 59:11We all growl like bears, we coo mournfully like doves; we wait for deliverance, but there is none, for salvation, but it is far from us.
- Jeremiah 8:15We hoped for good fortune, but nothing good has come of it. We hoped for a time of relief, but instead we experience terror.
- Jeremiah 14:19Then I said, “Lord, have you completely rejected the nation of Judah? Do you despise the city of Zion? Why have you struck us with such force that we are beyond recovery? We hope for peace, but nothing good has come of it. We hope for a time of relief from our troubles, but experience terror.
- Jeremiah 16:5“Moreover I, the Lord, tell you: ‘Do not go into a house where they are having a funeral meal. Do not go there to mourn and express your sorrow for them. For I have stopped showing them my good favor, my love, and my compassion. I, the Lord, so affirm it!
- Zechariah 8:10Before that time there was no compensation for man or animal, nor was there any relief from adversity for those who came and went, because I had pitted everybody – each one – against everyone else.
- Genesis 41:30But seven years of famine will occur after them, and all the abundance will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. The famine will devastate the land.
- Job 7:7Remember that my life is but a breath, that my eyes will never again see happiness.
- Jeremiah 20:14Cursed be the day I was born! May that day not be blessed when 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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