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The Darby Translation

Lamentations 3:18

And I said, My strength is perished, and my hope in Jehovah.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Despondency;   Doubting;   Thompson Chain Reference - Despair;   Hope-Despair;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Despair;   Judgments;  

Dictionaries:

- Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Acrostic;   Lamentations, Book of;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for October 24;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then I thought, “My future is lost,as well as my hope from the Lord.”
Hebrew Names Version
I said, My strength is perished, and my expectation from the LORD.
King James Version
And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the Lord :
English Standard Version
so I say, "My endurance has perished; so has my hope from the Lord ."
New American Standard Bible
So I say, "My strength has failed, And so has my hope from the LORD."
New Century Version
I said, "My strength is gone, and I have no hope in the Lord ."
Amplified Bible
So I say, "My strength has perished And so has my hope and expectation from the LORD."
World English Bible
I said, My strength is perished, and my expectation from Yahweh.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And I saide, My strength & mine hope is perished from the Lord,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So I say, "My strength has perished, And so has my hope from the LORD."
Legacy Standard Bible
So I say, "My strength has perished,As well as my hopeful waiting which comes from Yahweh."
Berean Standard Bible
So I say, "My strength has perished along with my hope from the LORD."
Contemporary English Version
I tell myself, "I am finished! I can't count on the Lord to do anything for me."
Complete Jewish Bible
that I think, "My strength is gone, and so is my hope in Adonai ."
Easy-to-Read Version
I said to myself, "I no longer have any hope that the Lord will help me."
George Lamsa Translation
And I said, My fame and my hope are perished from the LORD.
Good News Translation
I do not have much longer to live; my hope in the Lord is gone.
Lexham English Bible
And I have said, "My glory is ruined, my expectation from Yahweh."
Literal Translation
And I said, My strength and my hope have perished from Jehovah.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I thought in my self: I am vndone, there is no hope for me in the LORDE.
American Standard Version
And I said, My strength is perished, and mine expectation from Jehovah.
Bible in Basic English
And I said, My strength is cut off, and my hope from the Lord.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And I said: 'My strength is perished, and mine expectation from the LORD.'
King James Version (1611)
And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the Lord:
Bishop's Bible (1568)
I thought in my selfe, I am vndone, there is no hope for me in the Lorde.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Therefore my success has perished, and my hope from the Lord.
English Revised Version
And I said, My strength is perished, and mine expectation from the LORD.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Vau. And Y seide, Myn ende perischide, and myn hope fro the Lord.
Update Bible Version
And I said, My strength has perished, and my expectation from Yahweh.
Webster's Bible Translation
And I said, My strength and my hope hath perished from the LORD:
New English Translation
So I said, "My endurance has expired; I have lost all hope of deliverance from the Lord ."
New King James Version
And I said, "My strength and my hope Have perished from the LORD."
New Living Translation
I cry out, "My splendor is gone! Everything I had hoped for from the Lord is lost!"
New Life Bible
So I say, "My strength is gone, and so has my hope from the Lord."
New Revised Standard
so I say, "Gone is my glory, and all that I had hoped for from the Lord ."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And I said, Vanished is mine endurance, even mine expectation, from Yahweh.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Vau. And I said: My end and my hope is perished from the Lord.
Revised Standard Version
so I say, "Gone is my glory, and my expectation from the LORD."
Young's Literal Translation
And I say, Perished hath my strength and my hope from Jehovah.

Contextual Overview

1 I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. 2 Me hath he led, and brought into darkness, and not into light. 3 Surely against me hath he turned again and again his hand all the day. 4 My flesh and my skin hath he wasted away, he hath broken my bones. 5 He hath built against me, and encompassed [me] with gall and toil. 6 He hath made me to dwell in dark places as those that have been long dead. 7 He hath hedged me about that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy. 8 Even when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer. 9 He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked. 10 He is unto me [as] a bear lying in wait, a lion in secret places.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

1 Samuel 27:1, Job 6:11, Job 17:15, Psalms 31:22, Psalms 116:11, Ezekiel 37:11

Reciprocal: Job 8:13 - the hypocrite's Job 9:18 - will not Psalms 77:10 - This is Psalms 102:1 - overwhelmed Jeremiah 10:19 - Truly Jeremiah 31:17 - General Lamentations 3:54 - I said Luke 11:10 - General Luke 15:18 - will arise

Cross-References

Genesis 3:14
And Jehovah Elohim said to the serpent, Because thou hast done this, be thou cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field. On thy belly shalt thou go, and eat dust all the days of thy life.
Genesis 3:15
And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; he shall crush thy head, and thou shalt crush his heel.
Joshua 23:13
know for a certainty that Jehovah your God will no more dispossess these nations from before you, and they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which Jehovah your God hath given you.
Job 1:21
and he said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: Jehovah gave, and Jehovah hath taken away; blessed be the name of Jehovah!
Job 5:5
Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh even out of the thorns; and the snare gapeth for his substance.
Job 31:40
Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and tares instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
Psalms 90:3
Thou makest [mortal] man to return to dust, and sayest, Return, children of men.
Psalms 104:2
Covering thyself with light as with a garment, stretching out the heavens like a tent-curtain;—
Proverbs 22:5
Thorns [and] snares are in the way of the perverse: he that keepeth his soul holdeth himself far from them.
Proverbs 24:31
and lo, it was all grown over with thistles, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and its stone wall was broken down.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And I said, my strength and my hope are perished from the Lord. The former of these words signifies, according to Aben Ezra, "my standing", my subsistence, my continuance in being, or my perpetuity; according to Jarchi, my abiding r in this world; it is rendered "blood" in Isaiah 63:3; which is the support of life; and which when gone, or ceases to circulate, a man ceases to be: the sense is, that the prophet, or those he represents, looked upon themselves as dead men, at least of a short continuance; their natural strength was exhausted, and they must quickly die, and had no hope of living, or of enjoying the divine favour, or good things, at the hand of God. Some understand it of spiritual strength to do good, and of hope of having good things, or deliverance from the hand of God, which they were despairing of; for the words are the language of despondency, and betray great, weakness and infirmity; for in the Lord is everlasting strength, and he is the hope of his people, and the Saviour of them in time of trouble, Isaiah 26:4.

r נצחי "duratio mea", Montanus; "perennitas mea", Cocceius.

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 18. And my hope — That first, that last support of the miserable-it is gone! it is perished! The sovereign God alone can revive it.


 
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