Lamentations 3:54
Waters streamed over my head; I said, I am cut off.
Darby Translation
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 a pit, and cast a stone upon me.
55I called upon thy name, Jehovah, out of the lowest pit.
Cross References
Job 17:11My days are past, my purposes are broken off, the cherished thoughts of my heart.
Psalms 18:4The bands of death encompassed me, and torrents of Belial made me afraid.
Psalms 69:1{To the chief Musician. Upon Shoshannim. [A Psalm] of David.} Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto [my] soul.
Psalms 124:4Then the waters had overwhelmed us, a torrent had gone over our soul;
Isaiah 53:8He was taken from oppression and from judgment; and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living; for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
Ezekiel 37:11And he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are 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 →