Lamentations 3:53
and laid a stone upon me.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
In Context
52TSADE. The fowlers chased me as a sparrow, all my enemies destroyed my life in a pit without cause,
54Water flowed over my head: I said, I am cut off.
Cross References
Jeremiah 37:16And they that spoil you shall become a spoil, and I will give up to be plundered all that have plundered you.
Jeremiah 38:6For it is a day when those that plead on the mountains of Ephraim shall call, saying, Arise you⌃, and go up to Sion to the Lord your God.
Daniel 6:17And they brought a stone, and put it on the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his ring, and with the ring of his nobles; that the case might not be altered with regard to Daniel.
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 →