Lamentations 3:18

American Standard Version (1901)

And I said, My strength is perished, and mine expectation from Jehovah.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 17:15 : 15 Where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it?
  • Ezek 37:11 : 11 Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are clean cut off.
  • Ps 31:22 : 22 As for me, I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: Nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications When I cried unto thee.
  • Ps 116:11 : 11 I said in my haste, All men are liars.
  • 1 Sam 27:1 : 1 And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.
  • Job 6:11 : 11 What is my strength, that I should wait? And what is mine end, that I should be patient?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 17And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace; I forgat prosperity.

  • 15Where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it?

  • Job 19:9-10
    2 verses
    79%

    9He hath stripped me of my glory, And taken the crown from my head.

    10He hath broken me down on every side, and I am gone; And my hope hath he plucked up like a tree.

  • 10My heart throbbeth, my strength faileth me: As for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.

  • 19Remember mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

  • Ps 31:9-10
    2 verses
    77%

    9Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah, for I am in distress: Mine eye wasteth away with grief, [yea], my soul and my body.

    10For my life is spent with sorrow, And my years with sighing: My strength faileth because of mine iniquity, And my bones are wasted away.

  • 11What is my strength, that I should wait? And what is mine end, that I should be patient?

  • 4Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; My heart within me is desolate.

  • 7And now, Lord, what wait I for? My hope is in thee.

  • 13Is it not that I have no help in me, And that wisdom is driven quite from me?

  • 21This I recall to my mind; therefore have I hope.

  • 18Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! my heart is faint within me.

  • 24Jehovah is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.

  • 15My strength is dried up like a potsherd; And my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; And thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

  • 11He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate.

  • 6My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, And are spent without hope.

  • 15For in thee, O Jehovah, do I hope: Thou wilt answer, O Lord my God.

  • Ps 119:81-82
    2 verses
    74%

    81KAPH. My soul fainteth for thy salvation; [But] I hope in thy word.

    82Mine eyes fail for thy word, While I say, When wilt thou comfort me?

  • 2For thou art the God of my strength; Why hast thou cast me off? Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

  • 11My days are past, my purposes are broken off, Even the thoughts of my heart.

  • 22As for me, I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: Nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications When I cried unto thee.

  • Lam 1:13-14
    2 verses
    74%

    13From on high hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them; He hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: He hath made me desolate and faint all the day.

    14The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand; They are knit together, they are come up upon my neck; He hath made my strength to fail: The Lord hath delivered me into their hands, against whom I am not able to stand.

  • 16And now my soul is poured out within me; Days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

  • 5For thou art my hope, O Lord Jehovah: [Thou art] my trust from my youth.

  • 23He weakened my strength in the way; He shortened my days.

  • 4And I said, I am cast out from before thine eyes; Yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.

  • 12My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me as a shepherd's tent: I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life; he will cut me off from the loom: From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

  • 19But be not thou far off, O Jehovah: O thou my succor, haste thee to help me.

  • 1My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, The grave is [ready] for me.

  • 11My days are like a shadow that declineth; And I am withered like grass.

  • 14But I trusted in thee, O Jehovah: I said, Thou art my God.

  • 10I said, In the noontide of my days I shall go into the gates of Sheol: I am deprived of the residue of my years.

  • 20Behold, O Jehovah; for I am in distress; my heart is troubled; My heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: Abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.

  • 54Waters flowed over my head; I said, I am cut off.

  • 5I wait for Jehovah, my soul doth wait, And in his word do I hope.

  • 1[For the Chief Musician; set to Aijeleth hash-Shahar. A Psalm of David]. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? [Why art thou so] far from helping me, [and from] the words of my groaning?

  • 19He hath cast me into the mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.

  • 16For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water; Because the comforter that should refresh my soul is far from me: My children are desolate, because the enemy hath prevailed.

  • Jer 10:19-20
    2 verses
    72%

    19Woe is me because of my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is [my] grief, and I must bear it.

    20My tent is destroyed, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth from me, and they are not: there is none to spread my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.

  • 4My heart is smitten like grass, and withered; For I forget to eat my bread.

  • 17For I am ready to fall, And my sorrow is continually before me.

  • 17Be not a terror unto me: thou art my refuge in the day of evil.

  • 9I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

  • 20Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: And I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; And for comforters, but I found none.

  • 7But now he hath made me weary: Thou hast made desolate all my company.