Lamentations 3:17

New American Bible - revised edition

My life is deprived of peace, I have forgotten what happiness is;

Cross References

Genesis 41:30

but seven years of famine will rise up after them, when all the abundance will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. When the famine has exhausted the land,

Job 7:7

Remember that my life is like the wind; my eye will not see happiness again.

Psalm 119:155

Salvation is far from sinners because they do not cherish your statutes.

Isaiah 38:17

Peace in place of bitterness! You have preserved my life from the pit of destruction; Behind your back you cast all my sins.

Isaiah 54:10

Though the mountains fall away and the hills be shaken, My love shall never fall away from you nor my covenant of peace be shaken, says the Lord, who has mercy on you.

Isaiah 59:11

Like bears we all growl, like doves we moan without ceasing. We cry out for justice, but it is not there; for salvation, but it is far from us.

Jeremiah 12:12

Upon every height in the wilderness marauders have appeared. The Lord has a sword that consumes the land from end to end: no peace for any living thing.

Jeremiah 14:19

Have you really cast Judah off? Is Zion loathsome to you? Why have you struck us a blow that cannot be healed? We wait for peace, to no avail; for a time of healing, but terror comes instead.

Jeremiah 16:5

Thus says the Lord: Do not go into a house of mourning; do not go there to lament or grieve for them. For I have withdrawn my peace from this people—oracle of the Lord—my love and my compassion.

Jeremiah 8:15

We wait for peace to no avail; for a time of healing, but terror comes instead.

Lamentations 1:16

For these things I weep—My eyes! My eyes! They stream with tears! How far from me is anyone to comfort, anyone to restore my life. My children are desolate; the enemy has prevailed.”

Zechariah 8:10

For before those days, there were no wages for people, nor hire for animals. Those who came and went were not safe from the enemy, for I set neighbor against neighbor.