Lamentations 3:18 - Revised Standard Version so I say, “Gone is my glory, and my expectation from the Lord.” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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 thy sight.” But thou didst hear my supplications, when I cried to thee for help.
Then he said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are clean cut off.’
For every one who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.
And David said in his heart, “I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul; there is nothing better for me than that I should 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.”