King James Version
I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.(Lamentations 3:14)
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.(Lamentations 3:15)
He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.(Lamentations 3:16)
And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:(Lamentations 3:18)
Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.(Lamentations 3:19)
My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.(Lamentations 3:20)

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Lamentations 3:17 - Cross Reference

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; (Genesis 41:30)
O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good. (Job 7:7)
We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble! (Jeremiah 8:15)
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. (Zechariah 8:10)
Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed. (Jeremiah 20:14)
Salvation is far from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes. (Psalm 119:155)
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. (Lamentations 1:16)
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. (Isaiah 59:11)
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. (Isaiah 38:17)
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. (Isaiah 54:10)
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. (Jeremiah 16:5)
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! (Jeremiah 14:19)