Lamentations 3:54
Waters were flowing over my head; I said, I am cut off.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.
In Context
53They have put an end to my life in the prison, stoning me with stones.
55I was making prayer to your name, O Lord, out of the lowest prison.
Cross References
Job 17:11My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the desires of my heart.
Psalms 18:4\18:3\I will send up my cry to the Lord, who is to be praised; so will I be made safe from those who are against me.
Psalms 69:1To the chief music-maker; put to Shoshannim. Of David.
Psalms 124:4We would have been covered by the waters; the streams would have gone over our soul;
Isaiah 53:8They took away from him help and right, and who gave a thought to his fate? for he was cut off from the land of the living: he came to his death for the sin of my people.
Ezekiel 37:11Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones are all the children of Israel: and see, they are saying, Our bones have become dry our hope is gone, we are cut off completely.
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 →