Lamentations 3:17

Christian Standard Bible ®

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

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
You have removed my soul far off from shalom; I forgot prosperity.

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

English Standard Version
my soul is bereft of peace; I have forgotten what happiness is;

New American Standard Bible
My soul has been excluded from peace; I have forgotten happiness.

New Century Version
I have no more peace. I have forgotten what happiness is.

Amplified Bible
My soul has been cast far away from peace; I have forgotten happiness.

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

Geneva Bible (1587)
Thus my soule was farre off from peace: I forgate prosperitie,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
My soul has been rejected from peace; I have forgotten happiness.

Legacy Standard Bible
My soul has been rejected from peace;I have forgotten goodness.

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

Contemporary English Version
I cannot find peace or remember happiness.

Complete Jewish Bible
I have been so deprived of peace, I have so forgotten what happiness is,

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

Easy-to-Read Version
I thought I would never have peace again. I forgot about good things.

George Lamsa Translation
My soul has gone astray from peace, I have forgotten prosperity.

Good News Translation
I have forgotten what health and peace and happiness are.

Lexham English Bible
My life has been removed from peace, I have forgotten goodness.

Literal Translation
And You cast off my soul from peace; I have forgotten goodness.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
He hath put my soule out of rest, I forget all good thinges.

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

Bible in Basic English
My soul is sent far away from peace, I have no more memory of good.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And my soul is removed far off from peace, I forgot prosperity.

King James Version (1611)
And thou hast remoued my soule farre off from peace: I forgate prosperitie.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
He hath put my soule out of rest, I forget all good thinges.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
He has also removed my soul from peace: I forgot prosperity.

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

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Vau. And my soule is putte awei; Y haue foryete goodis.

Update Bible Version
And you have removed my soul far off from peace; I forgot prosperity.

Webster's Bible Translation
And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.

New English Translation
I am deprived of peace; I have forgotten what happiness is.

New King James Version
You have moved my soul far from peace; I have forgotten prosperity.

New Living Translation
Peace has been stripped away, and I have forgotten what prosperity is.

New Life Bible
Peace has left my soul. I have forgotten what it is like to be happy.

New Revised Standard
my soul is bereft of peace; I have forgotten what happiness is;

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And thou hast thrust away from welfare, my soul, I have forgotten prosperity;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Vau. And my soul is removed far off from peace, I have forgotten good things.

Revised Standard Version
my soul is bereft of peace, I have forgotten what happiness is;

Young's Literal Translation
And Thou castest off from peace my soul, I have forgotten prosperity.

Contextual Overview

¹I am the man who has seen affliction ²He has driven me away and forced me to walkin darkness instead of light. ³Yes, he repeatedly turns his handagainst me all day long. ⁴He has worn away my flesh and skin;he has broken my bones. ⁵He has laid siege against me,encircling me with bitterness and hardship. ⁶He has made me dwell in darknesslike those who have been dead for ages. ⁷He has walled me in so I cannot get out;he has weighed me down with chains. ⁸Even when I cry out and plead for help,he blocks out my prayer. ⁹He has walled in my ways with blocks of stone;he has made my paths crooked. ¹⁰He is a bear waiting in ambush,a lion in hiding.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

thou: Lamentations 1:16, Psalms 119:155, Isaiah 38:17, Isaiah 54:10, Isaiah 59:11, Jeremiah 8:15, Jeremiah 14:19, Jeremiah 16:5, Zechariah 8:10

I forgat: Genesis 41:30, Job 7:7, Jeremiah 20:14-18

prosperity: Heb. good

Reciprocal: Psalms 77:3 - I complained John 14:1 - not John 14:27 - not

Cross-References

Genesis 3:2
The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the fruit from the trees in the garden.

Genesis 3:3
But about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God said, ‘You must not eat it or touch it, or you will die.’”

Genesis 3:5
“In fact, God knows that when you eat it your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

Genesis 3:6
The woman saw that the tree was good for food and delightful to look at, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom. So she took some of its fruit and ate it; she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.

Genesis 3:7
Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.

Genesis 3:9
So the Lord God called out to the man and said to him, “Where are you?”

Genesis 3:11
Then he asked, “Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”

Genesis 3:13
So the Lord God asked the woman, “What is this you have done?”

Genesis 3:14
So the Lord God said to the serpent:

Genesis 3:16
He said to the woman:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace,.... From the time the city was besieged by the Chaldeans, and now the people was carried captive; who could have no true peace, being in a foreign land, in an enemy's country, and out of their own, and far from the place of divine worship; nor could the prophet have any peace of soul, in the consideration of these things, the city, temple, and nation, being desolate, though he himself was not in captivity.

I forgat prosperity; or "good" q; he had been so long from the enjoyment of it, that he had lost the idea of it, and was thoughtless about it, never expecting to see it any more.

q טובה "bonorum", V. L. "boni", Pagninus, Montanus, Cocceius, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Michaelis.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Having dwelt upon the difficulties which hemmed in his path, he now shows that there are dangers attending upon escape.

Lamentations 3:11

The meaning is, “God, as a lion, lying in wait, has made me turn aside from my path, but my flight was in vain, for springing upon me from His ambush lie has torn me in pieces.”

Desolate - Or, astonied, stupefied that he cannot flee. The word is a favorite one with Jeremiah.

Lamentations 3:12

This new simile arises out of the former one, the idea of a hunter being suggested by that of the bear and lion. When the hunter comes, it is not to save him.

Lamentations 3:14

Metaphor is dropped, and Jeremiah shows the real nature of the arrows which rankled in him so deeply.

Lamentations 3:15

“He hath” filled me to the full with bitterness, i. e. bitter sorrows Job 9:18.

Lamentations 3:16

Broken my teeth with gravel stones - His bread was so filled with grit that in eating it his teeth were broken.

Lamentations 3:17

Prosperity - literally, as in the margin, i. e. I forgot what good was, I lost the very idea of what it meant.

Lamentations 3:18

The prophet reaches the verge of despair. But by struggling against it he reaches at length firm ground.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 17. Thou hast removed my soul — Prosperity is at such an utter distance from me, that it is impossible I should ever reach it; and as to happiness, I have forgotten whether I have ever tasted of it.