Lamentations 3:17

17 "My soul has been kept from enjoying peace. I have forgotten what happiness is.

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 has filled me with bitterness. He has made me drink wormwood.
16 He has ground my teeth with gravel. He has trampled me into the dust.
17 "My soul has been kept from enjoying peace. I have forgotten what happiness is.
18 I said, 'I've lost my strength [to live] and my hope in the LORD.'
19 Remember my suffering and my [aimless] wandering, the wormwood and poison.
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