World English Bible
Lamentations 3:17
“You have removed my soul far off from peace; I forgot prosperity.”
Verse in context — Lamentations 3
15
He has filled me with bitterness, he has sated me with wormwood.
16
He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he has covered me with ashes.
17
You have removed my soul far off from peace; I forgot prosperity.
18
I said, My strength is perished, and my expectation from Yahweh.
19
Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
About Lamentations
Poems of grief over Jerusalem’s destruction.
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