Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
You have removed peace from my life; I have forgotten what prosperity is.
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.
A Conservative Version
And thou have removed my soul far off from peace. I forgot prosperity.
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 broke my teeth on gravel, covering me with dust. 17 You have removed peace from my life; I have forgotten what prosperity is. 18 So I say, "My strength is gone as is my hope in the LORD."
Names
Cross References
Isaiah 59:11
We all growl like bears; we sigh mournfully like doves. We look for justice, but there is none, and for deliverance, but it's far from us.
Genesis 41:30
but after them seven years of famine are ahead, during which all of the abundance will be forgotten throughout the land of Egypt. The famine will ravage the land so severely that
Job 7:7
Remember that my life is a breath; my eyes won't go back to seeing good things.
Psalm 119:155
Deliverance remains remote from the wicked, for they do not seek your statutes.
Isaiah 38:17
Yes, it was for my own good that I suffered extreme anguish. But in love you have held back my life from the Pit in which it has been confined; you have tossed all my sins behind your back.
Isaiah 54:10
For the mountains may collapse and the hills may reel, but my gracious love will not depart from you, neither will my covenant of peace totter," says the LORD, who has compassion on you.
Jeremiah 8:15
We waited for peace, but no good has come, for a time of healing, but instead there was terror.
Jeremiah 14:19
Have you completely rejected Judah? Do you despise Zion? Why have you struck us, so that there is no healing for us? We hoped for peace, but no good came, for a time of healing, but there was only terror.
Jeremiah 16:5
For this is what the LORD says: "Don't go to a house where there is mourning, don't go to lament, nor to express sorrow to them. For I've taken my peace away from this people," declares the LORD, "as well as gracious love and compassion.
Jeremiah 20:14-18
Let the day on which I was born be cursed. Don't let the day on which my mother gave birth to me be blessed.
Lamentations 1:16
Because of all this, I weep; my eyes stream with tears because far from me is the comforter of my soul. My children are sorrowful, because the enemy has won.
Zechariah 8:10
Before then, everyone was unemployed even the draft animals and no one was safe coming or going because of the enemy, because I caused everyone to oppose each other.