Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
And thou have removed my soul far off from peace. I forgot prosperity.
New American Standard Bible
I have forgotten
King James Version
And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
Holman Bible
I have forgotten what happiness is.
International Standard Version
You have removed peace from my life; I have forgotten what prosperity is.
American Standard Version
And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace; I forgat prosperity.
Amplified
My soul has been cast far away from peace;
I have forgotten happiness.
Bible in Basic English
My soul is sent far away from peace, I have no more memory of good.
Darby Translation
And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I have forgotten prosperity.
Julia Smith Translation
Thou wilt cast of my soul from peace: I forgat good.
King James 2000
And you have removed my soul far off from peace: I forgot prosperity.
Lexham Expanded Bible
My life has been removed from peace, I have forgotten goodness.
Modern King James verseion
And You cast off my soul from peace; I have forgotten blessedness.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
He hath put my soul out of rest; I forget all good things.
NET Bible
I am deprived of peace; I have forgotten what happiness is.
New Heart English Bible
You have removed my soul far away from peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is.
The Emphasized Bible
And thou hast thrust away from welfare, my soul, I have forgotten prosperity;
Webster
And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
World English Bible
You have removed my soul far off from peace; I forgot prosperity.
Youngs Literal Translation
And Thou castest off from peace my soul, I have forgotten prosperity.
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Lamentations 3:17
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel's Affliction
16 He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones. He has covered me with ashes. 17 And thou have removed my soul far off from peace. I forgot prosperity. 18 And I said, My strength is perished, and my expectation from LORD.
Names
Cross References
Isaiah 59:11
We all roar like bears, and moan greatly like doves. We look for justice, but there is none, for salvation, but it is far off from us.
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.
Job 7:7
O remember that my life is a breath. My eye shall no more see good.
Psalm 119:155
Salvation is far from the wicked, for they seek not thy statutes.
Isaiah 38:17
Behold, for peace I had great bitterness. But thou have by love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption. For thou have cast all my sins behind thy back.
Isaiah 54:10
For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed, but my loving kindness shall not depart from thee, nor shall my covenant of peace be removed, says LORD who has mercy on thee.
Jeremiah 8:15
We looked for peace, but no good came, for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay!
Jeremiah 14:19
Have thou utterly rejected Judah? Has thy soul loathed Zion? Why have thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came, and for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay!
Jeremiah 16:5
For thus says LORD, Enter not into the house of mourning, nor go to lament, nor bemoan them, for I have taken away my peace from this people, says LORD, even loving kindness and tender mercies.
Jeremiah 20:14-18
Cursed be the day in which I was born. Let not the day in which my mother bore me be blessed.
Zechariah 8:10
For before those days there was no wage for man, nor any wage for beast, nor was there any peace to him who went out or came in, because of the adversary. For I set all men each one against his neighbor.