💧WEB · Lamentations 3:17
What does Lamentations 3:17 mean?
"You have removed my soul far away from peace. I forgot prosperity."
— Lamentations 3:17 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
I have become a derision to all my people, and their song all day long.
He has filled me with bitterness. He has stuffed me with wormwood.
He has also broken my teeth with gravel. He has covered me with ashes.
You have removed my soul far away from peace. I forgot prosperity.
I said, “My strength has perished, along with my expectation from Yahweh.”
Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the bitterness.
My soul still remembers them, and is bowed down within me.
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