Lamentations 3:17
Good News Translation
I have forgotten what health and peace and happiness are.

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

Contemporary English Version
I cannot find peace or remember happiness.

New American Bible
My life is deprived of peace, I have forgotten what happiness is;

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

thou

Lamentations 1:16 Ain. Therefore do I weep, and my eyes run down with water: because the comforter, the relief of my soul, is far from me: my children are desolate because the enemy hath prevailed.

Psalm 119:155 Salvation is far from sinners; because they have not sought thy justifications.

Isaiah 38:17 Behold in peace is my bitterness most bitter: but thou hast delivered my soul that it should not perish, thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.

Isaiah 54:10 For the mountains shall be moved, and the hills shall tremble; but my mercy shall not depart from thee, and the covenant of my peace shall not be moved: said the Lord that hath mercy on thee.

Isaiah 59:11 We shall roar all of us like bears, and shall lament as mournful doves. We have looked for judgment, and there is none: for salvation, and it is far from us.

Jeremiah 8:15 We looked for peace and no good came: for a time of healing, and behold fear.

Jeremiah 14:19 Hast thou utterly cast away Juda, or hath thy soul abhorred Sion? why then hast thou struck us, so that there is no healing for us? we have looked for peace, and there is no good: and for the time of healing, and behold trouble.

Jeremiah 16:5 For thus saith the Lord: Enter not into the house of feasting, neither go thou to mourn, nor to comfort them: because I have taken away my peace from this people, saith the Lord, my mercy and commiserations.

Zechariah 8:10 For before those days there was no hire for men, neither was there hire for beasts, neither was there peace to him that came in, nor to him that went out, because of the tribulation: and I let all men go every one against his neighbour.

I forgat

Genesis 41:30 After which shall follow other seven years of so great scarcity, that all the abundance before shall be forgotten: for the famine shall consume all the land,

Job 7:7 Remember that my life is but wind, and my eye shall not return to see good things.

Jeremiah 20:14-18 Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day in which my mother bore me, be blessed. . . .

prosperity.

Context
Jeremiah's Afflictions
16Vau. And he hath broken my teeth one by one, he hath fed me with ashes. 17Vau. And my soul is removed far off from peace, I have forgotten good things.18Vau. And I said: My end and my hope is perished from the Lord.…
Cross References
Isaiah 59:11
We shall roar all of us like bears, and shall lament as mournful doves. We have looked for judgment, and there is none: for salvation, and it is far from us.

Jeremiah 12:12
The spoilers are come upon all the ways of the wilderness, for the sword of the Lord shall devour from one end of the land to the other end thereof: there is no peace for all flesh.

Lamentations 3:16
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