Lamentations 3:54
They haue powred water vpon my head: then thought I, nowe am I vndone.
Bible (Bishops')
In The King James Version
Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.
In Context
53They haue put downe my life into a pit, and they haue cast stones vpon me.
55I called vpon thy name O Lorde out of the deepe pit.
Cross References
Isaiah 53:8From the prison and iudgement was he taken, and his generation who can declare? for he was cut of from the grounde of the lyuyng, which punishment dyd go vpon hym for the transgression of my people.
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 →