Lamentations 3:54
Water flowed over my head: 1 I said, I am cut off. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.
In Context
55I called upon thy name, O Lord, 1 Out of the lowest dungeon. 1
Cross References
Job 17:11My days have passed in groaning, 1 And my heartstrings are broken. 1
Psalms 18:4There are no speeches or words, 1 In which their voices are not heard. 1
Psalms 69:1For the end, by David for a remembrance, that the Lord may save me. 1
Psalms 124:4Do good, O Lord, to them that are good, 1 And to them that are upright in heart. 1
Isaiah 53:8In his humiliation his judgment was taken away: who shall declare his generation? for his life is taken away from the earth: because of the iniquities of my people he was led to death.
Ezekiel 37:11And the Lord spoke to me, saying, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: and they say, Our bones are become dry, our hope has perished, we are quite spent.
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 →