Lamentations 3:17 KJV — MannaFest

Lamentations 3:17

And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.

KJV

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ASV

And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace; I forgat prosperity.

WEB

My soul has been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is.

YLT

And Thou castest off from peace my soul, I have forgotten prosperity.

DBT

And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I have forgotten prosperity.

About this book

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Lamentations — Five poems over the ruin of Jerusalem. The first four are alphabetic acrostics — every letter of the Hebrew alphabet drafted to hold the weight of grief. At the book's centre, mercy renewed every morning.

Author: Traditionally Jeremiah (cf. 2 Chron 35:25); the book itself is anonymous
Date: Shortly after Jerusalem's fall, c. 586 BC

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15 verses on the floor

John 14:27
Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
Isaiah 59:11
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.
John 14:1
Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
Job 7:7
O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.
Isaiah 38:17
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.

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gravel--referring to the grit that often mixes with bread baked in ashes, as is the custom of baking in the East (Pr 20:17). We fare as hardly as those who eat such bread. The same allusion is in "Covered me with ashes," namely, as bread.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

), so that it is not only not within reach, but no within view. I forget prosperity; it is so long since I had it, and so unlikely that I should ever recover it, that I have lost the idea of it.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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