Lamentations 3:17 BSB

Original language & word study

5 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַתִּזְנַ֧ח	va.tiz.Nach	and it has excluded	H2186 →
מִשָּׁל֛וֹם	mi.sha.Lom	from peace	H7965 →
נַפְשִׁ֖י	naf.Shi	self my	H5315 →
נָשִׁ֥יתִי	na.Shi.ti	I have forgotten	H5382 →
טוֹבָֽה׃	to.Vah	good	H2896 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

H2186vatiznachand it has excluded20×

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Isaiah 38:17
Surely for my own welfare I had such great anguish; but Your love has delivered me from the pit of oblivion, for You have cast all my sins behind Your back.
leads to
- Isaiah 43:25
  I, yes I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake and remembers your sins no more.
- Micah 7:18–19
  Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance—who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?
- Jonah 2:6
  To the roots of the mountains I descended; the earth beneath me barred me in forever! But You raised my life from the pit, O LORD my God!
- Psalms 30:3
  O LORD, You pulled me up from Sheol; You spared me from descending into the Pit.
- Jeremiah 31:34
  No longer will each man teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ because they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I…
Through
Job 7:7
Remember that my life is but a breath. My eyes will never again see happiness.
leads to
- James 4:14
  You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
- Psalms 78:39
  He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.
Through
Jeremiah 14:19
Have You rejected Judah completely? Do You despise Zion? Why have You stricken us so that we are beyond healing? We hoped for peace, but no good has come, and for the time of…
leads to
- Lamentations 5:22
  unless You have utterly rejected us and remain angry with us beyond measure.

The gold bar shows how strongly the cross-reference sources tie the two verses together: a long bar means many compiled references make the connection, a short one means few.

John 14:27Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled; do not be afraid.Isaiah 59:11We all growl like bears and moan like doves. We hope for justice, but find none, for salvation, but it is far from us.Job 7:7Remember that my life is but a breath. My eyes will never again see happiness.Isaiah 38:17Surely for my own welfare I had such great anguish; but Your love has delivered me from the pit of oblivion, for You have cast all my sins behind Your back.Jeremiah 20:14–18Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me never be blessed.Jeremiah 14:19Have You rejected Judah completely? Do You despise Zion? Why have You stricken us so that we are beyond healing? We hoped for peace, but no good has come, and for the time of healing, but there was only terror.Isaiah 54:10Though the mountains may be removed and the hills may be shaken, My loving devotion will not depart from you, and My covenant of peace will not be broken,” says the LORD, who has compassion on you.Lamentations 1:16For these things I weep; my eyes flow with tears. For there is no one nearby to comfort me, no one to revive my soul. My children are destitute because the enemy has prevailed.Jeremiah 16:5Indeed, this is what the LORD says: “Do not enter a house where there is a funeral meal. Do not go to mourn or show sympathy, for I have removed from this people My peace, My loving devotion, and My compassion,” declares the LORD.Genesis 41:30but seven years of famine will follow them. Then all the abundance in the land of Egypt will be forgotten, and the famine will devastate the land.Zechariah 8:10For before those days neither man nor beast received wages, nor was there safety from the enemy for anyone who came or went, for I had turned every man against his neighbor.Psalms 119:155Salvation is far from the wicked because they do not seek Your statutes.Jeremiah 8:15We hoped for peace, but no good has come, for a time of healing, but there was only terror.Psalms 77:3I remembered You, O God, and I groaned; I mused and my spirit grew faint. Selah

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