Lamentations 3:18 KJV — MannaFest

Lamentations 3:18

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

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ASV

And I said, My strength is perished, and mine expectation from Jehovah.

WEB

So I say, “My strength has perished, along with my hope from the LORD.”

YLT

And I say, Perished hath my strength and my hope from Jehovah.

DBT

And I said, My strength is perished, and my hope in Jehovah.

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Lamentations — Five poems over the ruin of Jerusalem. The first four are alphabetic acrostics — every letter of the Hebrew alphabet drafted to hold the weight of grief. At the book's centre, mercy renewed every morning.

Author: Traditionally Jeremiah (cf. 2 Chron 35:25); the book itself is anonymous
Date: Shortly after Jerusalem's fall, c. 586 BC

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Luke 11:10
For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
Jeremiah 31:17
And there is hope in thine end, saith the Lord, that thy children shall come again to their own border.
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.
Job 8:13
So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite’s hope shall perish:

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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.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

10 ), for with God there is everlasting strength, and he is his people's never-failing hope, whatever they may think. That grief returned upon every remembrance of his troubles, and his reflections were as melancholy as his prospects,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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