Lamentations 3:18

World English Bible (2000)

I said, My strength is perished, and my expectation from Yahweh.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 17:15 : 15 where then 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 up, and our hope is lost; we are clean cut off.
  • Ps 31:22 : 22 As for me, I said in my haste, "I am cut off from before your eyes." Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.
  • Ps 116:11 : 11 I said in my haste, "All men are liars."
  • 1 Sam 27:1 : 1 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 escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel. So shall I escape out of his hand."
  • Job 6:11 : 11 What is my strength, that I should wait? What is my end, that I should be patient?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lam 3:17
    81%

    17You have removed my soul far off from peace; I forgot prosperity.

  • Job 17:15
    80%

    15where then 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 broken me down on every side, and I am gone. My hope he has plucked up like a tree.

  • Ps 38:10
    78%

    10My heart throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it has also left me.

  • Lam 3:19
    78%

    19Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

  • Ps 31:9-10
    2 verses
    77%

    9Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.

    10For my life is spent with sorrow, my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away.

  • Job 6:11
    77%

    11What is my strength, that I should wait? What is my end, that I should be patient?

  • Ps 143:4
    77%

    4Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within me is desolate.

  • Ps 39:7
    76%

    7Now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in you.

  • Job 6:13
    76%

    13Isn't it that I have no help in me, That wisdom is driven quite from me?

  • Lam 3:21
    76%

    21This I recall to my mind; therefore have I hope.

  • Jer 8:18
    76%

    18Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! My heart is faint within me.

  • Lam 3:24
    75%

    24Yahweh is my portion, says my soul; therefore will I hope in him.

  • Ps 22:15
    75%

    15My strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of death.

  • Lam 3:11
    75%

    11He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he has made me desolate.

  • Job 7:6
    75%

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

  • Ps 38:15
    75%

    15For in you, Yahweh, do I hope. You will answer, Lord my God.

  • Ps 119:81-82
    2 verses
    74%

    81My soul faints for your salvation. I hope in your word.

    82My eyes fail for your word. I say, "When will you comfort me?"

  • Ps 43:2
    74%

    2For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

  • Job 17:11
    74%

    11My days are past, my plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart.

  • Ps 31:22
    74%

    22As for me, I said in my haste, "I am cut off from before your eyes." Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.

  • Lam 1:13-14
    2 verses
    74%

    13From on high has he 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 knit together, they are come up on my neck; he has made my strength to fail: The Lord has delivered me into their hands, against whom I am not able to stand.

  • Job 30:16
    74%

    16"Now my soul is poured out within me. Days of affliction have taken hold on me.

  • Ps 71:5
    74%

    5For you are my hope, Lord Yahweh; my confidence from my youth.

  • Ps 102:23
    74%

    23He weakened my strength along the course. He shortened my days.

  • Jonah 2:4
    73%

    4I said, 'I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.'

  • Isa 38:12
    73%

    12My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me like a shepherd's tent. I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life. He will cut me off from the loom. From day even to night you will make an end of me.

  • Ps 22:19
    73%

    19But don't be far off, Yahweh. You are my help: hurry to help me.

  • Job 17:1
    73%

    1"My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct, And the grave is ready for me.

  • Ps 102:11
    73%

    11My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.

  • Ps 31:14
    73%

    14But I trust in you, Yahweh. I said, "You are my God."

  • Isa 38:10
    73%

    10I said, "In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the residue of my years."

  • Lam 1:20
    73%

    20See, Yahweh; 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.

  • Lam 3:54
    73%

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

  • Ps 130:5
    73%

    5I wait for Yahweh. My soul waits. I hope in his word.

  • Ps 22:1
    73%

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

  • Job 30:19
    72%

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

  • Lam 1:16
    72%

    16For 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.

  • Jer 10:19-20
    2 verses
    72%

    19Woe is me because of my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is [my] grief, and I must bear it.

    20My tent is destroyed, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth from me, and they are no more: there is none to spread my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.

  • Ps 102:4
    72%

    4My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread.

  • Ps 38:17
    72%

    17For I am ready to fall. My pain is continually before me.

  • Jer 17:17
    72%

    17Don't be a terror to me: you are my refuge in the day of evil.

  • Ps 42:9
    72%

    9I will ask God, my rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?"

  • Ps 69:20
    72%

    20Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; for comforters, but I found none.

  • Job 16:7
    72%

    7But now, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made desolate all my company.