Lamentations 3:17

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Summary

Lamentations 3:17

And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.

Thou

I forgat

Genesis 41:30

Job 7:7

Jeremiah 20:14

Bible References

Thou

For these things I am weeping; my eye is streaming with water; because the comforter who might give me new life is far from me: my children are made waste, because the hater is strong.

Salvation is far from evil-doers; for they have made no search for your rules.

See, in place of peace my soul had bitter sorrow. but you have kept back my soul from the underworld; for you have put all my sins out of your memory.

For the mountains may be taken away, and the hills be moved out of their places, but my love will not be taken from you, or my agreement of peace broken, says the Lord, who has had mercy on you.

We make noises of grief, like bears, and sad sounds like doves: we are looking for our right, but it is not there; for salvation, but it is far from us.

We were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there is only a great fear.

Have you completely given up Judah? is your soul turned in disgust from Zion? why have you given us blows from which there is no one to make us well? we were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there was only a great fear.

For this is what the Lord has said: Do not go into the house of sorrow, do not go to make weeping or songs of grief for them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, says the Lord, even mercy and pity.

For before those days there was no payment for a man's work, or for the use of a beast, and there was no peace for him who went out or him who came in, because of the attacker: for I had every man turned against his neighbour.

I forgat

And after that will come seven years when there will not be enough food; and the memory of the good years will go from men's minds; and the land will be made waste by the bad years;

O, keep in mind that my life is wind: my eye will never again see good.

A curse on the day of my birth: let there be no blessing on the day when my mother had me.