Lamentations 3:54
Waters flowed over my head. I said, I am cut off.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.
In Context
53They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone upon me.
55I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the lowest dungeon.
Cross References
Job 17:11My days are past. my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
Psalms 18:4The cords of death encompassed me, and the floods of lawlessness made me afraid.
Psalms 69:1Save me, O God, for the waters have come in to my soul.
Psalms 124:4then the waters would have overwhelmed us, the stream would have gone over our soul,
Isaiah 53:8In his humiliation his justice was taken away. And as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living for the transgression of my people, to whom the stroke [was due]?
Ezekiel 37:11Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost. We are clean cut off.
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 →