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

{Ayin} Therefore do I weep, and mine eyes gush out of water: for the comforter that should quicken me is far from me. My children are driven away. For why? The enemy hath gotten the over hand.

Health is far from the ungodly, for they regard not thy statutes.

Behold, bitter as gall was my pensiveness: so sore longed I for health. And it was thy pleasure to deliver me from the filthy pit: for thou it is, O Lord, that hath cast all my sins behind thy back.

The mountains shall remove, and the hills shall fall down: but my loving-kindness shall not move, and the bond of my peace shall not fall down from thee, sayeth the LORD thy merciful lover.

We roar all like Bears, and mourn still like doves. We look for equity, but there is none; for health, but it is far from us.

We looked for peace, and we fair not the better; we waited for the time of health, and lo, here is nothing but trouble.

"Hast thou then utterly forsaken Judah?" said I, "Doest thou so abhor Zion? Or hast thou so plagued us, that we can be healed no more? We looked for peace, and there cometh no good: for the time of health, and lo, here is nothing but trouble.

Again, thus sayeth the LORD: Go not unto them that come together for to mourn and weep: for I have taken my peace from this people, sayeth the LORD; yea, my favour and my mercy.

For why? Before these days, neither men nor cattle could win anything, neither might any man come in and out in rest, for trouble: but I let every man go against his neighbour.

I forgat

And there shall arise after them seven years of hunger. So that all the plenteousness shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt. And the hunger shall consume the land:

"O remember that my life is but a wind, and that mine eye shall no more see the pleasures thereof;

Cursed be the day wherein I was born! Unhappy be the day, wherein my mother brought me forth!