Lamentations 3:17
And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
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- Isa 59:11 : 11 We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
- Jer 8:15 : 15 We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!
- Jer 14:19 : 19 Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we looked for peace, and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!
- Jer 16:5 : 5 For thus saith the LORD, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith the LORD, even lovingkindness and mercies.
- Jer 20:14-18 : 14 Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed. 15 Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad. 16 And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide; 17 Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me. 18 Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
- Lam 1:16 : 16 For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desote, because the enemy prevailed.
- Zech 8:10 : 10 For before these days there was no hire for man, nor any hire for beast; neither was there any peace to him that went out or came in because of the affliction: for I set all men every one against his neighbour.
- Gen 41:30 : 30 And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land;
- Job 7:7 : 7 O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.
- Ps 119:155 : 155 Salvation is far from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes.
- Isa 38:17 : 17 Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
- Isa 54:10 : 10 For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee.
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18And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:
19Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
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21This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.
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13From above 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 desote and faint all the day.
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4My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
5He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
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9He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
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7But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
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12I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.
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14LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?
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2For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
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10Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.
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22For 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.
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20Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
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11He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.