Lamentations 3:17

The Scriptures 1998

And You have removed my being far from peace, I have forgotten goodness.

Cross References

Isaiah 59:11

All of us growl like bears, and moan sadly like doves. We look for right-ruling, but there is none; for deliverance, but it is far from us.

Zechariah 8:10

‘For before these days there was not a wage for a man, nor a hire for beast, and there was no peace for him who went out or came in, because of his enemies, and I set all men one against another.

Lamentations 1:16

“This is why I weep. My eye, my eye is running down with water, Because the comforter, Who could bring back my life, Has been far from me. My children are stunned, For the enemy has prevailed.”

Jeremiah 16:5

For thus said יהוה, “Do not enter the house of mourning, neither go to lament or mourn for them, for I have withdrawn My peace from this people,” declares יהוה, “even the kindness and the compassions.

Jeremiah 14:19

Have You completely rejected Yehuḏ

Jeremiah 8:15

We looked for peace, but there was no good; and for a time of healing, but see – fear!

Isaiah 54:10

“For though the mountains be removed and the hills be shaken, My kindness is not removed from you, nor is My covenant of peace shaken,” said יהוה, who has compassion on you.

Isaiah 38:17

“See, for peace I had what was bitter, bitter. But You have lovingly delivered my being from the pit of corruption, for You have cast all my sins behind Your back.

Psalm 119:155

Deliverance is far from the wrong ones, For they have not sought Your laws.

Job 7:7

Remember that my life is a breath! My eye is never again to see good.

Genesis 41:30

but after them seven years of scarcity of food shall arise and all the plenty be forgotten in the land of Mitsrayim. And the scarcity of food shall destroy the land,

Jeremiah 12:12

“The ravagers have come on all the bare heights in the wilderness, for the sword of יהוה  is devouring from one end of the land to the other end of the land. There is no peace to any flesh.