Lamentations 3:18 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁸And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:

Lamentations 3:18 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 17:15
And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
1 Samuel 27:1
And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.
Psalms 31:22
For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.
Ezekiel 37:11
Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.
Job 6:11
What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Despair Despondency Discouragement Doubting Faith

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-20)

The title of the Ps. 102:1-28 might very fitly be prefixed to this chapter— The prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and pours out his complaint before the Lord; for it is very feelingly and fluently that the complaint is here poured out. Let us observe the particulars of it. The prophet complains, 1. That God is angry. This gives both birth and bitterness to the affliction (Lam. 3:1):…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 18)

16-18. gravel--referring to the grit that often mixes with bread baked in ashes, as is the custom of baking in the East (Pr 20:17). We fare as hardly as those who eat such bread. The same allusion is in “Covered me with ashes,” namely, as bread.