Lamentations 3:17

World English Bible (2000)

You have removed my soul far off from peace; I forgot prosperity.

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 59:11 : 11 We roar all like bears, and moan bitterly like doves: we look for justice, 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 healing, and behold, dismay!
  • Jer 14:19 : 19 Have you utterly rejected Judah? has your soul loathed Zion? why have you struck us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and behold, dismay!
  • Jer 16:5 : 5 For thus says Yahweh, Don't enter into the house of mourning, neither go to lament, neither bemoan them; for I have taken away my peace from this people, says Yahweh, even loving kindness and tender mercies.
  • Jer 20:14-18 : 14 Cursed is the day in which I was born: don't let the day in which my mother bore me be blessed. 15 Cursed is the man who brought news to my father, saying, A boy is born to you; making him very glad. 16 Let that man be as the cities which Yahweh overthrew, and didn't repent: and let him hear a cry in the morning, and shouting at noontime; 17 because he didn't kill me from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great. 18 Why came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
  • Lam 1:16 : 16 For these things I weep; my eye, my eye runs down with water; Because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me: My children are desolate, because the enemy has prevailed.
  • Zech 8:10 : 10 For before those days there was no wages for man, nor any wages for an animal; neither was there any peace to him who went out or came in, because of the adversary. For I set all men everyone against his neighbor.
  • Gen 41:30 : 30 There will arise after them seven years of famine, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. The famine will consume the land,
  • Job 7:7 : 7 Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye shall no more see good.
  • Ps 119:155 : 155 Salvation is far from the wicked, for they don't seek your statutes.
  • Isa 38:17 : 17 Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my sins behind your back.
  • Isa 54:10 : 10 For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed; but my loving kindness shall not depart from you, neither shall my covenant of peace be removed," says Yahweh who has mercy on you.

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