Lamentations 3:53
They tried to kill me by tossing me into a pit and throwing stones at me.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
In Context
52For no reason my enemies trapped me like a bird.
54Water flooded over my head, and I thought I was going to die.
Cross References
Jeremiah 37:16Jeremiah was placed in a cell in the underground dungeon and was kept there for a long time.
Jeremiah 38:6So they took Jeremiah and put him in the cistern belonging to Malchiah, the king's son, which was in the guard's courtyard. They lowered Jeremiah down with ropes into the cistern. It didn't have any water, only mud, and Jeremiah sank into the mud.
Daniel 6:17A stone was brought and placed over the entrance to the den and the king sealed it with his own personal seal and those of his nobles so that no one could interfere with what was happening to Daniel.
Matthew 27:60and placed it in his own new tomb, cut out of solid rock. He rolled a large stone across the entrance to the tomb, and left.
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 →