New Living Translation
Lamentations 3:17
17Peace has been stripped away, and 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.
- 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 and given me a bitter cup of sorrow to drink. 16He has made me chew on gravel. He has rolled me in the dust. Peace has been stripped away, and I have forgotten what prosperity is. 18I cry out, “My splendor is gone! Everything I had hoped for from the Lord is lost!” 19The thought of my suffering and homelessness is bitter beyond words.
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“For all these things I weep; tears flow down my cheeks. No one is here to comfort me; any who might encourage me are far away. My children have no future, for the enemy has conquered us.”
- Psalms 119:155The wicked are far from rescue, for they do not bother with your decrees.
- Isaiah 38:17Yes, this anguish was good for me, for you have rescued me from death and forgiven all my sins.
- Isaiah 54:10For the mountains may move and the hills disappear, but even then my faithful love for you will remain. My covenant of blessing will never be broken,” says the Lord, who has mercy on you.
- Isaiah 59:11We growl like hungry bears; we moan like mournful doves. We look for justice, but it never comes. We look for rescue, but it is far away from us.
- Jeremiah 8:15We hoped for peace, but no peace came. We hoped for a time of healing, but found only terror.’
- Jeremiah 14:19Lord, have you completely rejected Judah? Do you really hate Jerusalem? Why have you wounded us past all hope of healing? We hoped for peace, but no peace came. We hoped for a time of healing, but found only terror.
- Jeremiah 16:5This is what the Lord says: “Do not go to funerals to mourn and show sympathy for these people, for I have removed my protection and peace from them. I have taken away my unfailing love and my mercy.
- Zechariah 8:10Before the work on the Temple began, there were no jobs and no money to hire people or animals. No traveler was safe from the enemy, for there were enemies on all sides. I had turned everyone against each other.
- Genesis 41:30But afterward there will be seven years of famine so great that all the prosperity will be forgotten in Egypt. Famine will destroy the land.
- Job 7:7O God, remember that my life is but a breath, and I will never again feel happiness.
- Jeremiah 20:14Yet I curse the day I was born! May no one celebrate the day of my birth.
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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