Lamentations 3:17

Israel's Affliction

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He has broken my teeth with gravel;
He has [covered me with ashes and] made me cower in the dust.
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My soul has been cast far away from peace;
I have forgotten happiness.
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So I say, “My strength has perished
And so has my hope and expectation from the Lord.”

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Isaiah 59:11

We all groan and growl like bears,
And coo sadly like doves;
We hope for justice, but there is none,
For salvation, but it is far from us.

Genesis 41:30

but afterward seven years of famine and hunger will come, and [there will be such desperate need that] all the great abundance [of the previous years] will be forgotten in the land of Egypt [as if it never happened], and famine and destitution will ravage and destroy the land.

Job 7:7

“Remember that my life is but breath [a puff of wind, a sigh];
My eye will not see good again.

Psalm 119:155

Salvation is far from the wicked,
For they do not seek Your statutes.

Isaiah 38:17

“Indeed, it was for my own well-being that I had such bitterness;
But You have loved back my life from the pit of nothingness (destruction),
For You have cast all my sins behind Your back.

Isaiah 54:10

“For the mountains may be removed and the hills may shake,
But My lovingkindness will not be removed from you,
Nor will My covenant of peace be shaken,”
Says the Lord who has compassion on you.

Jeremiah 8:15

We waited for peace and salvation, but no good came,
And for a time of healing, but behold, terror!

Jeremiah 14:19

Have You [O Lord] completely rejected Judah?
Do You loathe Zion?
Why have You stricken us so that there is no healing for us?
We looked for peace and completeness, but nothing good came;
And [we hoped] for a time of healing, but behold, terror!

Jeremiah 16:5

For thus says the Lord, “Do not enter a house of mourning, nor go to lament (express grief) or bemoan [the dead], for I have taken My peace away from this people,” says the Lord, “even My lovingkindness and compassion.

Jeremiah 20:14-18

Cursed be the day on which I was born;
Do not bless the day on which my mother gave birth to me!

Lamentations 1:16

“I weep for these things;
My eyes overflow with tears,
Because a comforter,
One who could restore my soul, is far away from me.
My children are desolate and perishing,
For the enemy has prevailed.”

Zechariah 8:10

For before those days there were no wages for man or animal; nor was there any peace or success for him who went out or came in because of his enemies, for I set all men against one another.