Lamentations 3:54
Sade. Waters have flowed over my head: I said: I am cut off.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.
In Context
53Sade. My life is fallen into the pit, and they have laid a stone over me.
55Coph. I have called upon thy name, O Lord, from the lowest pit.
Cross References
Job 17:11My days have passed away, my thoughts are dissipated, tormenting my heart.
Psalms 18:4Praising I will call upon the Lord: and I shall be saved from my enemies.
Psalms 69:1Unto the end, for them that shall be changed; for David.
Psalms 124:4For our soul is greatly filled: we are a reproach to the rich, and contempt to the proud.
Isaiah 53:8He was taken away from distress, and from judgment: who shall declare his generation? because he is cut oh out of the land of the living: for the wickedness of my people have I struck him.
Ezekiel 37:11And he said to me: Son of man: All these bones are the house of Israel : they say: Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost, and 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 →