"And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:" — Lamentations 3:18

Lamentations 3:18 · KJV

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

— Lamentations 3:18

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

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

Lamentations 3 — Context

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}

My soul hath {them} still in remembrance, and is humbled in me. {humbled: Heb. bowed}

Cross References

Job 17:15

And where {is} now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?

1 Samuel 27:1

And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: {there is} nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand. {perish: Heb. be consumed}

Job 6:11

What {is} my strength, that I should hope? and what {is} mine end, that I should prolong my life?

Psalms 31:22

For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.

Ezekiel 37:11

Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.

Psalms 116:11

I said in my haste, All men {are} liars.