Lamentations 3:18 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 so I say, “Gone is my glory and all that I had hoped for from the Lord.” More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And I said, My strength and my hope Is perished from the LORD: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And I say, Perished is my strength and my expectation from the Lord. American Standard Version (1901) And I said, My strength is perished, and mine expectation from Jehovah. Common English Bible I thought: My future is gone, as well as my hope from the LORD. Catholic Public Domain Version VAU. And I said, "My end and my hope from the Lord has perished." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Vau. And I said: My end and my hope is perished from the Lord. |
What is my strength, that I should wait? And what is my end, that I should be patient?
I had said in my alarm, “I am driven far from your sight.” But you heard my supplications when I cried out to you for help.
Then he said to me, “Mortal, these bones are the whole house of Israel. They say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are cut off completely.’
For everyone who asks receives, and everyone who searches finds, and for everyone who knocks, the door will be opened.
David said in his heart, “I shall certainly perish one day by the hand of Saul; there is nothing better for me than to escape to the land of the Philistines; then Saul will despair of seeking me any longer within the borders of Israel, and I shall escape out of his hand.”