Lamentations 3:17
And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
Lamentations 3:17 in other translations
| BSB | My soul has been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is. |
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| WEB | You have removed my soul far away from peace. I forgot prosperity. |
| ASV | And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace; I forgat prosperity. |
| YLT | And Thou castest off from peace my soul, I have forgotten prosperity. |
| DARBY | And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I have forgotten prosperity. |
| BBE | My soul is sent far away from peace, I have no more memory of good. |
| Webster | And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity. |
What does Lamentations 3:17 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Lamentations 3:16-18
16-18. 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.
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Lamentations 3:1-20
The faithful lament their calamities, and hope in God's mercies. Verses 1-20 The prophet relates the more gloomy and discouraging part of his experience, and how he found support and relief. In the time of his trial the Lord had become terrible to him. It was an affliction that was misery itself; for sin makes the cup of affliction a bitter cup. The struggle between unbelief and faith is often very severe. But the…
Lamentations 3:17 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Lamentations 3:17
- Isaiah 59:11
We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
- Genesis 41:30
And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land;
- Lamentations 1:16
For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.
- Isaiah 38:17
Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
- Jeremiah 8:15
We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!
- Jeremiah 14:19
Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we looked for peace, and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!
- Job 7:7
O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.
- Isaiah 54:10
For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee.
- Jeremiah 20:14-18
Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed. Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad. And let that man be as the cities which the Lord overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide; Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me. …
- Zechariah 8:10
For before these days there was no hire for man, nor any hire for beast; neither was there any peace to him that went out or came in because of the affliction: for I set all men every one against his neighbour.
- Jeremiah 16:5
For thus saith the Lord, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith the Lord, even lovingkindness and mercies.
- Psalms 119:155
Salvation is far from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes.
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Context
- Lamentations 3:16
He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
- Lamentations 3:17
And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
- Lamentations 3:18
And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the Lord:
Lamentations 3:17 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y mi alma se alejó de la paz, olvidéme del bien. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et tu as rejeté mon âme loin de la paix, j’ai oublié le bonheur; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und meine Seele ist vom Frieden verstoßen, ich habe des Guten vergessen. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Et repulsa est a pace anima mea; oblitus sum bonorum. |