Lamentations 3:54
Waters have flowed over my head, I have said, I have been cut off.
Literal Standard Version
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 a pit, || And they cast a stone against me.
55I called Your Name, O YHWH, from the lower pit.
Cross References
Job 17:11My days have passed by, || My plans have been broken off, || The possessions of my heart!
Psalms 18:4Cords of death have surrounded me, || And streams of the worthless make me afraid.
Psalms 69:1TO THE OVERSEER. [SET] ON “LILIES.” BY DAVID. Save me, O God, for waters have come to the soul.
Psalms 124:4Then the waters had overflowed us, || The stream passed over our soul,
Isaiah 53:8By restraint and by judgment He has been taken, || And of His generation who meditates, || That He has been cut off from the land of the living? He is plagued by the transgression of My people,
Ezekiel 37:11And He says to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel; behold, they are saying, Our bones have dried up, || And our hope has perished, || We have been cut off by ourselves.
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 →