Lamentations 3:17

17 VAV et repulsa est anima mea oblitus sum bonorum

Lamentations 3:17 Meaning and Commentary

Lamentations 3:17

And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace
From the time the city was besieged by the Chaldeans, and now the people was carried captive; who could have no true peace, being in a foreign land, in an enemy's country, and out of their own, and far from the place of divine worship; nor could the prophet have any peace of soul, in the consideration of these things, the city, temple, and nation, being desolate, though he himself was not in captivity. I forgat prosperity;
or "good" F17; he had been so long from the enjoyment of it, that he had lost the idea of it, and was thoughtless about it, never expecting to see it any more.


FOOTNOTES:

F17 (hbwj) "bonorum", V. L. "boni", Pagninus, Montanus, Cocceius, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Michaelis.

Lamentations 3:17 In-Context

15 HE replevit me amaritudinibus inebriavit me absinthio
16 VAV et fregit ad numerum dentes meos cibavit me cinere
17 VAV et repulsa est anima mea oblitus sum bonorum
18 VAV et dixi periit finis meus et spes mea a Domino
19 ZAI recordare paupertatis et transgressionis meae absinthii et fellis
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