Lamentations 3:54
Water flooded over my head, and I thought I was going to die.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.
In Context
53They tried to kill me by tossing me into a pit and throwing stones at me.
55I called out for you, Lord, from deep inside the pit.
Cross References
Job 17:11My life is over. My plans are gone. My heart is broken.
Psalms 18:4Ropes of death encircled me, surging waters of destruction flooded over me;
Psalms 69:1God, please save me, because the water is up to my neck!
Psalms 124:4Like a flood they would have swept over us; like a rushing torrent they would have submerged us.
Isaiah 53:8Through force and a death sentence he was killed —who cared what happened to him? He was executed, removed from the land of the living; he was killed because of my people's wickedness.
Ezekiel 37:11He told me, “Son of man, these bones represent all the people of Israel. Listen to what the people are saying, ‘Our bones have dried up, and our hope has been crushed. We have been wiped out!’
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 →