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Lamentations 3:18
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Then I thought, “My future is lost,as well as my hope from the Lord.”
I said, My strength is perished, and my expectation from the LORD.
And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the Lord :
so I say, "My endurance has perished; so has my hope from the Lord ."
So I say, "My strength has failed, And so has my hope from the LORD."
I said, "My strength is gone, and I have no hope in the Lord ."
So I say, "My strength has perished And so has my hope and expectation from the LORD."
I said, My strength is perished, and my expectation from Yahweh.
And I saide, My strength & mine hope is perished from the Lord,
So I say, "My strength has perished, And so has my hope from the LORD."
So I say, "My strength has perished,As well as my hopeful waiting which comes from Yahweh."
So I say, "My strength has perished along with my hope from the LORD."
I tell myself, "I am finished! I can't count on the Lord to do anything for me."
that I think, "My strength is gone, and so is my hope in Adonai ."
And I said, My strength is perished, and my hope in Jehovah.
I said to myself, "I no longer have any hope that the Lord will help me."
And I said, My fame and my hope are perished from the LORD.
I do not have much longer to live; my hope in the Lord is gone.
And I have said, "My glory is ruined, my expectation from Yahweh."
And I said, My strength and my hope have perished from Jehovah.
I thought in my self: I am vndone, there is no hope for me in the LORDE.
And I said, My strength is perished, and mine expectation from Jehovah.
And I said, My strength is cut off, and my hope from the Lord.
And I said: 'My strength is perished, and mine expectation from the LORD.'
And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the Lord:
I thought in my selfe, I am vndone, there is no hope for me in the Lorde.
Therefore my success has perished, and my hope from the Lord.
And I said, My strength is perished, and mine expectation from the LORD.
Vau. And Y seide, Myn ende perischide, and myn hope fro the Lord.
And I said, My strength has perished, and my expectation from Yahweh.
And I said, My strength and my hope hath perished from the LORD:
And I said, "My strength and my hope Have perished from the LORD."
I cry out, "My splendor is gone! Everything I had hoped for from the Lord is lost!"
So I say, "My strength is gone, and so has my hope from the Lord."
so I say, "Gone is my glory, and all that I had hoped for from the Lord ."
And I said, Vanished is mine endurance, even mine expectation, from Yahweh.
Vau. And I said: My end and my hope is perished from the Lord.
so I say, "Gone is my glory, and my expectation from the LORD."
And I say, Perished hath my strength and my hope from Jehovah.
Contextual Overview
א (Alef)
I am the man who has experienced affliction from the rod of his wrath. 2 He drove me into captivity and made me walk in darkness and not light. 3 He repeatedly attacks me, he turns his hand against me all day long. 4ב (Bet)
He has made my mortal skin waste away; he has broken my bones. 5 He has besieged and surrounded me with bitter hardship. 6 He has made me reside in deepest darkness like those who died long ago. 7ג (Gimel)
He has walled me in so that I cannot get out; he has weighted me down with heavy prison chains. 8 Also, when I cry out desperately for help, he has shut out my prayer. 9 He has blocked every road I take with a wall of hewn stones; he has made every path impassable. 10ד (Dalet)
To me he is like a bear lying in ambush, like a hidden lion stalking its prey.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
The Lord God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, cursed are you above all the wild beasts and all the living creatures of the field! On your belly you will crawl and dust you will eat all the days of your life.
And I will put hostility between you and the woman and between your offspring and her offspring; her offspring will attack your head, and you will attack her offspring's heel."
know for certain that the Lord our God will no longer drive out these nations from before you. They will trap and ensnare you; they will be a whip that tears your sides and thorns that blind your eyes until you disappear from this good land the Lord your God gave you.
He said, "Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I will return there. The Lord gives, and the Lord takes away. May the name of the Lord be blessed!"
The hungry eat up his harvest, and take it even from behind the thorns, and the thirsty swallow up their fortune.
then let thorns sprout up in place of wheat, and in place of barley, weeds!" The words of Job are ended.
You make mankind return to the dust, and say, "Return, O people!"
He covers himself with light as if it were a garment. He stretches out the skies like a tent curtain,
Thorns and snares are in the path of the perverse, but the one who guards himself keeps far from them.
I saw that thorns had grown up all over it, the ground was covered with weeds, 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.
