Lamentations 3:17
New International Version
I have been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is.

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

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

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

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

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

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

NASB 1995
My soul has been rejected from peace; I have forgotten happiness.

NASB 1977
And 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.

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

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
My soul has been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what happiness is.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And my soul has been led astray from peace and I have forgotten good

Brenton Septuagint Translation
He has also removed my soul from peace: I forgot prosperity.

Contemporary English Version
I cannot find peace or remember happiness.

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

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"My soul has been kept from enjoying peace. I have forgotten what happiness is.

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

International Standard Version
You have removed peace from my life; I have forgotten what prosperity is.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And my soul is removed far off from peace, I forgot prosperity.

Literal Standard Version
And You cast off my soul from peace, | I have forgotten prosperity.

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

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

NET Bible
I am deprived of peace; I have forgotten what happiness is.

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

New Heart English Bible
You have removed my soul far away from peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is.

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

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

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

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Context
Jeremiah's Afflictions
16He has ground my teeth with gravel and trampled me in the dust. 17My soul has been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is. 18So I say, “My strength has perished, along with my hope from the LORD.”…

Cross References
Isaiah 59:11
We all growl like bears and moan like doves. We hope for justice, but find none, for salvation, but it is far from us.

Jeremiah 12:12
Over all the barren heights in the wilderness the destroyers have come, for the sword of the LORD devours from one end of the earth to the other. No flesh has peace.


Treasury of Scripture

And you have removed my soul far off from peace: I forgot prosperity.

thou

Lamentations 1:16
For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.

Psalm 119:155
Salvation is far from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes.

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.

I forgat

Genesis 41:30
And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land;

Job 7:7
O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.

Jeremiah 20:14-18
Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed…

prosperity.

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Lamentations 3
1. The prophet bewails his own calamities
22. By the mercies of God, he nourishes his hope
37. He acknowledges God's justice
55. He prays for deliverance
64. And vengeance on his enemies














(17) Thou hast removed my soul far off from peace.--The verb is found in this sense in Psalm 88:14. By some critics it is taken as passive, and in the 3rd person feminine. My soul loathes peace, i.e., has lost even the desire of better things; or, My soul is despised of peace, i.e., is shut out from it. But the Authorised version is preferable.

Verse 17. - Thou hast removed my soul; rather, thou hast rejected my soul. The words look like a quotation from Psalm 88:14 (Hebrew, 15), where they are undoubtedly an address to Jehovah. But there is another rendering, which grammatically is equally tenable, and which avoids the strangely abrupt address to God, viz. My soul is rejected (from peace).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
My soul
נַפְשִׁ֖י (nap̄·šî)
Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 5315: A soul, living being, life, self, person, desire, passion, appetite, emotion

has been deprived
וַתִּזְנַ֧ח (wat·tiz·naḥ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 2186: Reject, forsake, fail

of peace;
מִשָּׁל֛וֹם (miš·šā·lō·wm)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7965: Safe, well, happy, friendly, welfare, health, prosperity, peace

I have forgotten
נָשִׁ֥יתִי (nā·šî·ṯî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 5382: To forget, to neglect, to remit, remove

what prosperity is.
טוֹבָֽה׃ (ṭō·w·ḇāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 2896: Pleasant, agreeable, good


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