Lamentations 3:17-18

My soul has been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is. So I say, “My strength has perished, along with my hope from the LORD.”

Berean Standard Bible, public domain. Read all of Lamentations 3

2 songs meet this passage

  • “Hope decays”

    The Little Things Give You Away · LINKIN PARK

    resonates with Lamentations 3:17-18

    The loss of hope here mirrors Lamentations' raw admission that endurance and hope itself can feel stripped away.

  • Another Love (Radio Edit) · Tom Odell

    resonates with Lamentations 3:17-20

    Jeremiah writes from a place of identical emotional ruin, 'I have forgotten what happiness is.' The song lives in this same territory of honest, unresolved grief.

Elsewhere in Lamentations 3