Lamentations 3:53
They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone upon me.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
In Context
52They have chased me grievously like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.
54Waters flowed over my head. I said, I am cut off.
Cross References
Jeremiah 37:16When Jeremiah came into the dungeon-house, and into the cells, and Jeremiah had remained there many days,
Jeremiah 38:6Then they took Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchijah the king's son, that was in the court of the guard. And they let Jeremiah down with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire, and Jeremiah sank in th
Daniel 6:17And a stone was brought, and laid upon the mouth of the den. And the king sealed it with his own signet, and with the signet of his lords, that nothing might be changed concerning Daniel.
Matthew 27:60and laid it in his own new sepulcher, which he hewed out in the rock. And having rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulcher, he departed.
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 3:43-55
Complaining to God. ( b. c. 588.) 42 We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned. 43 Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied. 44 Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through. 45 Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people. 46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us. 47 Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction. 48 Mine eye runneth down with rivers of… Read the whole commentary →