Lamentations 3:18

Lam 3:18 And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:

Ver. 18. And I said. ] But not so wisely. I was even almost tumbling into the pit of desperation. I was straddling over it, as it were, but God preserved me.

My strength and my hope is perished. ] My strength to bear these miseries, and my hope to be ever freed of them.