Lamentations 3:53
They take away my life in the dungeon; they cast a stone upon me;
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
In Context
52They that are my enemies without cause hunt me down like a bird;
54Waters flow over my head; I say, “I am undone!”
Cross References
Jeremiah 37:16And when Jeremiah had gone into the dungeon, and into the cells, and had remained there a long time,
Jeremiah 38:6Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah, the son of Hammelech, which was in the court of the prison; and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but only mire; and Jeremiah sunk in the mire.
Daniel 6:17And a stone was brought and laid upon the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his own signet, and with the signet of his lords, that nothing concerning Daniel might be changed.
Matthew 27:60and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock, and having rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb, 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 →