Lamentations 3:18

KJV1611 – Modern English

And I said, My strength and my hope perished from the LORD.

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  • Job 17:15 : 15 And where now is my hope? As for my hope, who shall see it?
  • Ezek 37:11 : 11 Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off.
  • Ps 31:22 : 22 For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before your eyes: nevertheless you heard the voice of my supplications when I cried to you.
  • 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 quickly escape into the land of the Philistines; then Saul will despair of me, to seek me any longer in any territory of Israel. Thus I will escape out of his hand.
  • Job 6:11 : 11 What is my strength, that I should hope? And what is my end, that I should prolong my life?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 17You have moved my soul far from peace; I forgot prosperity.

  • 15And where now is my hope? As for my hope, who shall see it?

  • Job 19:9-10
    2 verses
    79%

    9He has stripped me of my glory and taken the crown from my head.

    10He has destroyed me on every side, and I am gone; and my hope He has removed like a tree.

  • 10My heart pants, my strength fails me; as for the light of my eyes, it also has gone from me.

  • 19Remembering my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

  • Ps 31:9-10
    2 verses
    77%

    9Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: my eye is consumed with grief, yes, my soul and my body.

    10For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

  • 11What is my strength, that I should hope? And what is my end, that I should prolong my life?

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

  • 7And now, Lord, what do I wait for? my hope is in you.

  • 13Is not my help within me? And is wisdom driven quite from me?

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

  • 18When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint within me.

  • 24The LORD is my portion, says my soul; therefore I will hope in Him.

  • 15My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue clings to my jaws; You have brought me into the dust of death.

  • 11He has turned aside my ways and torn me to pieces; He has made me desolate.

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

  • 15For in you, O LORD, do I hope; you will hear, O Lord my God.

  • Ps 119:81-82
    2 verses
    74%

    81CAPH. My soul faints for Your salvation, but I hope in Your word.

    82My eyes fail with longing for Your word, saying, 'When will You comfort me?'

  • 2For you are the God of my strength; why do you cast me off? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

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

  • 22For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before your eyes: nevertheless you heard the voice of my supplications when I cried to you.

  • Lam 1:13-14
    2 verses
    74%

    13From above he has sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them: he has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back: he has made me desolate and faint all the day.

    14The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are woven together, and come upon my neck: he has made my strength to fall, the Lord has delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up.

  • 16And now my soul is poured out within me; the days of affliction have seized me.

  • 5For you are my hope, O Lord GOD; you are my trust from my youth.

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

  • 4Then I said, I am cast out of Your sight; yet I will look again toward Your holy temple.

  • 12My lifespan is gone, taken from me like a shepherd's tent: I have cut off my life like a weaver; He cuts me off with pining sickness: from day to night You make an end of me.

  • 19But do not be far from me, O LORD; O my strength, hurry to help me.

  • 1My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.

  • 11My days are like a shadow that declines, and I am withered like grass.

  • 14But I trusted in you, O LORD: I said, You are my God.

  • 10I said in the prime of my days, I shall go to the gates of Sheol: I am deprived of the rest of my years.

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

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

  • 5I wait for the LORD, my soul waits, and in his word do I hope.

  • 1My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?

  • 19He has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.

  • 16For these things I weep; my eye, my eye runs down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.

  • Jer 10:19-20
    2 verses
    72%

    19Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it.

    20My tent is ruined, and all my cords are broken: my children have gone from me, and they are no more: there is no one to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.

  • 4My heart is stricken and withered like grass, so I forget to eat my bread.

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

  • 17Do not be a terror to me: you are my hope in the day of evil.

  • 9I will say to God my rock, Why have You forgotten me? why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

  • 20Reproach has 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 has made me weary; you have made desolate all my company.