Lamentations 3:53
And laid a stone upon me. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
In Context
52The fowlers chased me as a sparrow, 1 All mine enemies destroyed my life in a pit without cause, 1
54Water flowed over my head: 1 I said, I am cut off. 1
Cross References
Jeremiah 37:16Therefore all that devour thee shall be eaten, and all thine enemies shall eat all their own flesh. Thy sins have abounded beyond the multitude of thine iniquities, therefore they have done these things to thee. And they that spoil thee shall become a spoil, and I will give up to be plundered all that have plundered thee.
Jeremiah 38:6For it is a day when those that plead on the mountains of Ephraim shall call, saying, Arise ye, and go up to Zion to the Lord your God.
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 →