The Meaning of Lamentations 3:18 Explained

Lamentations 3:18

KJV: And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:

YLT: And I say, Perished hath my strength and my hope from Jehovah.

Darby: And I said, My strength is perished, and my hope in Jehovah.

ASV: And I said, My strength is perished, and mine expectation from Jehovah.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

And I said,  My strength  and my hope  is perished  from the LORD: 

What does Lamentations 3:18 Mean?

Chapter Summary: Lamentations 3

1  The prophet bewails his own calamities
22  By the mercies of God, he nourishes his hope
37  He acknowledges God's justice
55  He prays for deliverance
64  And vengeance on his enemies

What do the individual words in Lamentations 3:18 mean?

And I said have perished My strength and my hope from Yahweh -
וָאֹמַר֙ אָבַ֣ד נִצְחִ֔י וְתוֹחַלְתִּ֖י מֵיְהוָֽה ס

וָאֹמַר֙  And  I  said 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Consecutive imperfect, first person common singular
Root: אָמַר 
Sense: to say, speak, utter.
אָבַ֣ד  have  perished 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Perfect, third person masculine singular
Root: אָבַד  
Sense: perish, vanish, go astray, be destroyed.
נִצְחִ֔י  My  strength 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct, first person common singular
Root: נֵצַח  
Sense: eminence, perpetuity, strength, victory, enduring, everlastingness.
וְתוֹחַלְתִּ֖י  and  my  hope 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, feminine singular construct, first person common singular
Root: תֹּוחֶלֶת  
Sense: hope.
מֵיְהוָֽה  from  Yahweh 
Parse: Preposition-m, Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: יהוה 
Sense: the proper name of the one true God.
ס  - 
Parse: Punctuation

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