King James Version
Lamentations 3:17 in the King James Version says “And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity. prosperity: Heb. good” — study this verse from Lamentations chapter 3 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity. prosperity: Heb. good”
Lamentations 3:17 · KJV
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood. bitterness: Heb. bitternesses
He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes. covered: or, rolled me in the ashes
And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity. prosperity: Heb. good
And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:
Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. Remembering: or, Remember
KJV Study — Public Domain
“from peace”
H7965safe, i.e., (figuratively) well, happy, friendly; also (abstractly) welfare, i.e., health, prosperity, peace
“my soul”
H5315properly, a breathing creature, i.e., animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or ment
“prosperity”
H2896good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good
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