Lamentations 3:17

Israel's Affliction

¹⁶ He has broken my teeth with gravel;
He has made me cower in the dust.
¹⁷ My soul has been rejected from peace;
I have forgotten happiness.
¹⁸ So I say, “My strength has perished,
And so has my hope from the Lord.”

No

Isaiah 59:11

All of us growl like bears,
And moan sadly like doves;
We hope for justice, but there is none,
For salvation, but it is far from us.

Genesis 41:30

and after them seven years of famine will come, and all the abundance will be forgotten in the land of Egypt, and the famine will ravage the land.

Job 7:7

“Remember that my life is but breath;
My eye will not again see good.

Psalm 119:155

Salvation is far from the wicked,
For they do not seek Your statutes.

Isaiah 38:17

“Lo, for my own welfare I had great bitterness;
It is You who has kept my soul from the pit of nothingness,
For You have cast all my sins behind Your back.

Isaiah 54:10

“For the mountains may be removed and the hills may shake,
But My lovingkindness will not be removed from you,
And My covenant of peace will not be shaken,”
Says the Lord who has compassion on you.

Jeremiah 8:15

We waited for peace, but no good came;
For a time of healing, but behold, terror!

Jeremiah 14:19

Have You completely rejected Judah?
Or have You loathed Zion?
Why have You stricken us so that we are beyond healing?
We waited for peace, but nothing good came;
And for a time of healing, but behold, terror!

Jeremiah 16:5

For thus says the Lord, “Do not enter a house of mourning, or go to lament or to console them; for I have withdrawn My peace from this people,” declares the Lord, “My lovingkindness and compassion.

Jeremiah 20:14-18

Cursed be the day when I was born;
Let the day not be blessed when my mother bore me!

Lamentations 1:16

“For these things I weep;
My eyes run down with water;
Because far from me is a comforter,
One who restores my soul.
My children are desolate
Because the enemy has prevailed.”

Zechariah 8:10

For before those days there was no wage for man or any wage for animal; and for him who went out or came in there was no peace because of his enemies, and I set all men one against another.