New International Version
Lamentations 3:17
17I have been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is.
Lamentations 3:17 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
- 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.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Peace has been stripped away, and I have forgotten what prosperity is.
Context of Lamentations 3:17
15He has filled me with bitter herbs and given me gall to drink. 16He has broken my teeth with gravel; he has trampled me in the dust. I have been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is. 18So I say, “My splendor is gone and all that I had hoped from the Lord.” 19I remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the gall.
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 1:16“This is why I weep and my eyes overflow with tears. No one is near to comfort me, no one to restore my spirit. My children are destitute because the enemy has prevailed.”
- Psalms 119:155Salvation is far from the wicked, for they do not seek out your decrees.
- Isaiah 38:17Surely it was for my benefit that I suffered such anguish. In your love you kept me from the pit of destruction; you have put all my sins behind your back.
- Isaiah 54:10Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed,” says the Lord, who has compassion on you.
- Isaiah 59:11We all growl like bears; we moan mournfully like doves. We look for justice, but find none; for deliverance, but it is far away.
- Jeremiah 8:15We hoped for peace but no good has come, for a time of healing but there is only terror.
- Jeremiah 14:19Have you rejected Judah completely? Do you despise Zion? Why have you afflicted us so that we cannot be healed? We hoped for peace but no good has come, for a time of healing but there is only terror.
- Jeremiah 16:5For this is what the Lord says: “Do not enter a house where there is a funeral meal; do not go to mourn or show sympathy, because I have withdrawn my blessing, my love and my pity from this people,” declares the Lord.
- Zechariah 8:10Before that time there were no wages for people or hire for animals. No one could go about their business safely because of their enemies, since I had turned everyone against their neighbor.
- Genesis 41:30but seven years of famine will follow them. Then all the abundance in Egypt will be forgotten, and the famine will ravage the land.
- Job 7:7Remember, O God, that my life is but a breath; my eyes will never see happiness again.
- Jeremiah 20:14Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me 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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