Lamentations 3:17

17 My life has been removed from peace, I have forgotten goodness.

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 drenched me [with] wormwood.
16 He has broken my teeth on grit, he has trampled me down in ash.
17 My life has been removed from peace, I have forgotten goodness.
18 And I have said, "My glory is ruined, my expectation from Yahweh."
19 Remember my misery and bitterness, the wormwood and venom!
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