Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Lam 3:17 — And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
Phrase of Scripture   Correlating Passages TSK Help

thou   Lam 1:16; Psa 119:155; Isa 38:17; Isa 54:10; Isa 59:11; Jer 8:15; Jer 14:19; Jer 16:5; Zec 8:10
I forgat   Gen 41:30; Job 7:7; Jer 20:14-18
prosperity   Heb. good.
Correlating Passages
thou
Lam 1:16 For these [things] I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.
Psa 119:155 Salvation [is] far from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes.
Isa 38:17 Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul [delivered it] from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
Isa 54:10 For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee.
Isa 59:11 We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but [there is] none; for salvation, [but] it is far off from us.
Jer 8:15 We looked for peace, but no good [came; and] for a time of health, and behold trouble!
Jer 14:19 Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and [there is] no healing for us? we looked for peace, and [there is] no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!
Jer 16:5 For thus saith the LORD, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith the LORD, [even] lovingkindness and mercies.
Zec 8:10 For before these days there was no hire for man, nor any hire for beast; neither [was there any] peace to him that went out or came in because of the affliction: for I set all men every one against his neighbour.
I forgat
Gen 41:30 And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land;
Job 7:7 O remember that my life [is] wind: mine eye shall no more see good.
Jer 20:14 Cursed [be] the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.
Jer 20:15 Cursed [be] the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.
Jer 20:16 And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide;
Jer 20:17 Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb [to be] always great [with me].
Jer 20:18 Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

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Scott, Thomas. "Lamentations 3:17," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Lam/3/17.html>.

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