Lamentations 3:17

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

my soul is bereft of peace, I have forgotten what happiness is;

Cross References

Genesis 41:30

but after them there will arise seven years of famine, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt; the famine will consume the land,

Job 7:7

“Remember that my life is a breath; my eye will never again see good.

Psalm 119:155

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

Isaiah 38:17

Lo, it was for my welfare that I had great bitterness; but thou hast held back my life from the pit of destruction, for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.

Isaiah 54:10

For the mountains may depart and the hills be removed, but my steadfast love shall not depart from you, and my covenant of peace shall not be removed, says the Lord, who has compassion on you.

Isaiah 59:11

We all growl like bears, we moan and moan like doves; we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us.

Jeremiah 12:12

Upon all the bare heights in the desert destroyers have come; for the sword of the Lord devours from one end of the land to the other; no flesh has peace.

Jeremiah 14:19

Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? Does thy soul loathe Zion? Why hast thou smitten us so that there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; for a time of healing, but behold, terror.

Jeremiah 16:5

“For thus says the Lord: Do not enter the house of mourning, or go to lament, or bemoan them; for I have taken away my peace from this people, says the Lord, my steadfast love and mercy.

Jeremiah 8:15

We looked for peace, but no good came, for a time of healing, but behold, terror.

Lamentations 1:16

“For these things I weep; my eyes flow with tears; for a comforter is far from me, one to revive my courage; my children are desolate, for the enemy has prevailed.”

Zechariah 8:10

For before those days there was no wage for man or any wage for beast, neither was there any safety from the foe for him who went out or came in; for I set every man against his fellow.