Lamentations 3:17
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“My soul has been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is.”
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BSBPD
“My soul has been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace; I forgat prosperity.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“And Thou castest off from peace my soul, I have forgotten prosperity.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Lamentations 3:17 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 41:30but seven years of famine will follow them. Then all the abundance in the land of Egypt will be forgotten, and the famine will devastate the land.
- Job 7:7Remember that my life is but a breath. My eyes will never again see happiness.
- Psalms 119:155Salvation is far from the wicked because they do not seek Your statutes.
- Isaiah 38:17Surely for my own welfare I had such great anguish; but Your love has delivered me from the pit of oblivion, for You have cast all my sins behind Your back.
- Isaiah 54:10Though the mountains may be removed and the hills may be shaken, My loving devotion will not depart from you, and My covenant of peace will not be broken,” says the LORD, who has compassion on you.
- Isaiah 59:11We all growl like bears and moan like doves. We hope for justice, but find none, for salvation, but it is far from us.
- Jeremiah 8:15We hoped for peace, but no good has come, for a time of healing, but there was only terror.
- Jeremiah 14:19Have You rejected Judah completely? Do You despise Zion? Why have You stricken us so that we are beyond healing? We hoped for peace, but no good has come, and for the time of healing, but there was only terror.
- Jeremiah 16:5Indeed, this is what the LORD says: “Do not enter a house where there is a funeral meal. Do not go to mourn or show sympathy, for I have removed from this people My peace, My loving devotion, and My compassion,” declares the LORD.
- Jeremiah 20:14Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me never be blessed.
- Lamentations 1:16For these things I weep; my eyes flow with tears. For there is no one nearby to comfort me, no one to revive my soul. My children are destitute because the enemy has prevailed.
- Zechariah 8:10For before those days neither man nor beast received wages, nor was there safety from the enemy for anyone who came or went, for I had turned every man against his neighbor.
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