Lamentations 3:54
Waters flowed over my head; I said: 'I am cut off.'
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.
In Context
53They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast stones upon me.
55I called upon Thy name, O LORD, Out of the lowest dungeon.
Cross References
Job 17:11My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
Psalms 18:4(18-5) The cords of Death compassed me, and the floods of Belial assailed me.
Psalms 69:1(69-1) For the Leader; upon Shoshannim. A Psalm of David. (69-2) Save me, O God; for the waters are come in even unto the soul.
Psalms 124:4Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul;
Isaiah 53:8By oppression and judgment he was taken away, and with his generation who did reason? for he was cut off out of the land of the living, for the transgression of my people to whom the stroke was due.
Ezekiel 37:11Then He said unto me: 'Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel; behold, they say: Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are clean 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 →