Lamentations 3:53
They haue put downe my life into a pit, and they haue cast stones vpon me.
Bible (Bishops')
In The King James Version
They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
In Context
52Mine enemies hunted me out sharply like a byrde, yea & that without a cause.
54They haue powred water vpon my head: then thought I, nowe am I vndone.
Cross References
Matthew 27:60And layde it in his newe tombe, which he had hewen out, euen in the rocke, and rolled a great stone to the dore of the sepulchre, and departed.
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 →