Lamentations 3:54
Waters streamed over my head: I said, I am cut off.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.
In Context
53They have shut up in the dungeon my life, and have cast stones upon me.
55I called on thy name, O Lord, out of the dungeon of the lowest depth.
Cross References
Job 17:11My days are past, my resolves are broken off, [even the thoughts]—the possessions of my heart.
Psalms 18:4(18:5) The bonds of death encompassed me, and the floods of destruction made me afraid.
Psalms 69:1“To the chief musician upon Shoshannim, by David.” (69:2) Save me, O God; for the waters are come even to threaten my life.
Psalms 124:4Then would the waters have overwhelmed us, the stream would have passed over our soul;
Isaiah 53:8Through oppression and through judicial punishment was he taken away; but his generation—who could tell, that he was cut away out of the land of life, [that] for the transgressions of my people the plague was laid on him?
Ezekiel 37:11Then said he unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Dried are our bones, and lost is our hope; we are quite 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 →