Lamentations 3:53
They have cut off my life in a pit, || And they cast a stone against me.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
In Context
52Hunting—my enemies have hunted me without cause like the bird.
54Waters have flowed over my head, I have said, I have been cut off.
Cross References
Jeremiah 37:16When Jeremiah has entered into the house of the dungeon, and to the cells, then Jeremiah dwells there many days,
Jeremiah 38:6And they take Jeremiah, and cast him into the pit of Malchiah son of the king, that [is] in the court of the prison, and they send Jeremiah down with cords; and there is no water in the pit, but mire, and Jeremiah sinks in the mire.
Daniel 6:17And a stone has been brought and placed at the mouth of the den, and the king has sealed it with his signet, and with the signet of his great men, that the purpose is not changed concerning Daniel.
Matthew 27:60and laid it in his new tomb that he hewed in the rock, and having rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb, he went away;
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 →