Lamentations 3:17

17 I have lost all hope of ever having any peace. I've forgotten what good times are like.

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.

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FOOTNOTES:

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

Lamentations 3:17 In-Context

15 The LORD has made my life bitter. He has made me suffer bitterly.

16 He made me chew stones that broke my teeth. He has walked all over me in the dust.

17 I have lost all hope of ever having any peace. I've forgotten what good times are like.

18 So I say, "My glory has faded away. My hope in the LORD is gone."

19 I remember how I suffered and wandered. I remember how bitter my life was.