Lamentations 3:18

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And I said, My strength is cut off, and my hope from the Lord.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 17:15 : 15 Where then is my hope? and who will see my desire?
  • Ezek 37:11 : 11 Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones are all the children of Israel: and see, they are saying, Our bones have become dry our hope is gone, we are cut off completely.
  • Ps 31:22 : 22 And as for me, I said in my fear, I am cut off from before your eyes; but you gave ear to the voice of my prayer, when my cry went up to you.
  • Ps 116:11 : 11 Though I said in my fear, All men are false.
  • 1 Sam 27:1 : 1 And David said to himself, Some day death will come to me by the hand of Saul: the only thing for me to do is to get away into the land of the Philistines; then Saul will give up hope of taking me in any part of the land of Israel: and so I may be able to get away from him.
  • Job 6:11 : 11 Have I strength to go on waiting, or have I any end to be looking forward to?

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    17My soul is sent far away from peace, I have no more memory of good.

  • Job 17:15
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    15Where then is my hope? and who will see my desire?

  • Job 19:9-10
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    79%

    9He has put off my glory from me, and taken the crown from my head.

    10I am broken down by him on every side, and I am gone; my hope is uprooted like a tree.

  • Ps 38:10
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    10My heart goes out in pain, my strength is wasting away; as for the light of my eyes, it is gone from me.

  • Lam 3:19
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    19Keep in mind my trouble and my wandering, the bitter root and the poison.

  • Ps 31:9-10
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    77%

    9Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am in trouble; my eyes are wasted with grief, I am wasted in soul and body.

    10My life goes on in sorrow, and my years in weeping; my strength is almost gone because of my sin, and my bones are wasted away.

  • Job 6:11
    77%

    11Have I strength to go on waiting, or have I any end to be looking forward to?

  • Ps 143:4
    77%

    4Because of this my spirit is overcome; and my heart is full of fear.

  • Ps 39:7
    76%

    7And now, Lord, what am I waiting for? my hope is in you.

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    76%

    13I have no help in myself, and wisdom is completely gone from me.

  • Lam 3:21
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    21This I keep in mind, and because of this I have hope.

  • Jer 8:18
    76%

    18Sorrow has come on me! my heart in me is feeble.

  • Lam 3:24
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    24I said to myself, The Lord is my heritage; and because of this I will have hope in him.

  • Ps 22:15
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    15My throat is dry like a broken vessel; my tongue is fixed to the roof of my mouth, and the dust of death is on my lips.

  • Lam 3:11
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    11By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste.

  • Job 7:6
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    6My days go quicker than the cloth-worker's thread, and come to an end without hope.

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    15In you, O Lord, is my hope: you will give me an answer, O Lord, my God.

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    81<CAPH> My soul is wasted with desire for your salvation: but I have hope in your word.

    82My eyes are full of weariness with searching for your word, saying, When will you give me comfort?

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    2You are the God of my strength; why have you put me from you? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters?

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    11My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the desires of my heart.

  • Ps 31:22
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    22And as for me, I said in my fear, I am cut off from before your eyes; but you gave ear to the voice of my prayer, when my cry went up to you.

  • Lam 1:13-14
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    13From on high he has sent fire into my bones, and it has overcome them: his net is stretched out for my feet, I am turned back by him; he has made me waste and feeble all the day.

    14A watch is kept on my sins; they are joined together by his hand, they have come on to my neck; he has made my strength give way: the Lord has given me up into the hands of those against whom I have no power.

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    5For you are my hope, O Lord God; I have had faith in you from the time when I was young.

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    23He has taken my strength from me in the way; he has made short my days.

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    19Do not be far from me, O Lord: O my strength, come quickly to my help.

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    1My spirit is broken, my days are ended, the last resting-place is ready for me.

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    11My days are like a shade which is stretched out; I am dry like the grass.

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    14But I had faith in you, O Lord; I said, You are my God.

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    72%

    19Truly God has made me low, even to the earth, and I have become like dust.

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    16For these things I am weeping; my eye is streaming with water; because the comforter who might give me new life is far from me: my children are made waste, because the hater is strong.

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    4My heart is broken; it has become dry and dead like grass, so that I give no thought to food.

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    72%

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    7But now he has overcome me with weariness and fear, and I am in the grip of all my trouble.