Lamentations 3:54
SADE. The waters have flooded over my head. I said, “I am lost.”
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.
In Context
53SADE. My life has fallen into a pit, and they have placed a stone over me.
55COPH. I called upon your name, O Lord, from the furthest pit.
Cross References
Job 17:11My days have passed away; my thoughts have been scattered, tormenting my heart.
Psalms 18:4There are no speeches or conversations, where their voices are not being heard.
Psalms 69:1Unto the end. A Psalm of David, in remembrance that the Lord had saved him.
Psalms 124:4Do good, O Lord, to the good and to the upright of heart.
Isaiah 53:8He was lifted up from anguish and judgment. Who will describe his life? For he has been cut off from the land of the living. Because of the wickedness of my people, I have struck him down.
Ezekiel 37:11And he said to me: “Son of man: All these bones are the house of Israel. They say: ‘Our bones are dried out, and our hope has perished, and we have been 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 →