"And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity. {prosperity: Heb. good}" — Lamentations 3:17

Lamentations 3:17 · KJV

“And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity. {prosperity: Heb. good}”

— Lamentations 3:17

He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes. {covered...: or, rolled me in the ashes}

Verse 18

And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:

Lamentations 3 — Context

He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood. {bitterness: Heb. bitternesses}

He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes. {covered...: or, rolled me in the ashes}

And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity. {prosperity: Heb. good}

And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:

Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. {Remembering: or, Remember}

Cross References

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.

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. {mourning: or, mourning feast}

Psalms 119:155

Salvation {is} far from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes.

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.

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. {there was...: or, the hire of man became nothing}

Job 7:7

O remember that my life {is} wind: mine eye shall no more see good. {shall...: Heb. shall not return} {see: to see, that is, to enjoy}

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;

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!