Lamentations 3:17

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My soul has been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what happiness is.

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  • Isa 59:11 : 11 We all growl like bears and moan like doves. We hope for justice, but it is nowhere, and for salvation, but it is far from us.
  • Jer 8:15 : 15 We hoped for peace, but no good has come. We looked for a time of healing, but there is only terror.
  • Jer 14:19 : 19 Have You utterly rejected Judah? Does Your soul loathe Zion? Why have You struck us so that we cannot be healed? We hoped for peace, but no good has come; for a time of healing, but there was only terror.
  • Jer 16:5 : 5 For this is what the LORD says: Do not enter a house of mourning. Do not go to lament or console them, for I have withdrawn My peace from this people, declares the LORD, as well as My lovingkindness and compassion.
  • Jer 20:14-18 : 14 Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother gave birth to me not be blessed. 15 Cursed be the man who brought my father the news, saying, 'A male child has been born to you,' and made him very glad. 16 May that man be like the cities the LORD overthrew without relenting. May he hear cries of distress in the morning and shouts of alarm at noon. 17 For he did not kill me in the womb, so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb forever pregnant. 18 Why did I ever come out of the womb to see trouble and sorrow and to end my days in shame?
  • Lam 1:16 : 16 "Because of these things I weep; my eyes, my eyes flow with tears. No one is near to comfort me, no one to restore my spirit. My children are desolate because the enemy has prevailed."
  • Zech 8:10 : 10 For before those days, there was no wage for people or animals, and no one could go about safely because of the enemy, for I had turned everyone against their neighbor.
  • Gen 41:30 : 30 But after them, seven years of famine will arise, and all the abundance in the land of Egypt will be forgotten. The famine will ravage the land.
  • Job 7:7 : 7 Remember that my life is but a breath; my eyes will never see good again.
  • Ps 119:155 : 155 Salvation is far from the wicked, for they do not seek Your statutes.
  • Isa 38:17 : 17 Indeed, it was for my peace that I had great bitterness; but You, in Your love, delivered my soul from the pit of destruction. You have cast all my sins behind Your back.
  • Isa 54:10 : 10 Though the mountains may depart and the hills be removed, my steadfast love will not depart from you, and my covenant of peace shall not be broken, says the Lord, who has compassion on you.

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