Lamentations 3:17

A Conservative Version

And thou have removed my soul far off from peace. I forgot prosperity.

Cross References

Isaiah 59:11

We all roar like bears, and moan greatly like doves. We look for justice, but there is none, for salvation, but it is far off from us.

Zechariah 8:10

For before those days there was no wage for man, nor any wage for beast, nor was there any peace to him who went out or came in, because of the adversary. For I set all men each one against his neighbor.

Lamentations 1:16

For these things I weep. My eye, my eye runs down with water, because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me. My sons are desolate, because the enemy has prevailed.

Jeremiah 16:5

For thus says LORD, Enter not into the house of mourning, nor go to lament, nor bemoan them, for I have taken away my peace from this people, says LORD, even loving kindness and tender mercies.

Jeremiah 14:19

Have thou utterly rejected Judah? Has thy soul loathed Zion? Why have thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came, and for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay!

Jeremiah 8:15

We looked for peace, but no good came, for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay!

Isaiah 54:10

For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed, but my loving kindness shall not depart from thee, nor shall my covenant of peace be removed, says LORD who has mercy on thee.

Isaiah 38:17

Behold, for peace I had great bitterness. But thou have by love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption. For thou have cast all my sins behind thy back.

Psalm 119:155

Salvation is far from the wicked, for they seek not thy statutes.

Job 7:7

O remember that my life is a breath. My eye shall no more see good.

Genesis 41:30

and there shall arise after them seven years of famine. And all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt, and the famine shall consume the land.

Jeremiah 12:12

Destroyers have come upon all the bare heights in the wilderness. For the sword of LORD devours from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land. No flesh has peace.