Lamentations 3:54
Waters flow over my head; I say, “I am undone!”
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.
In Context
53They take away my life in the dungeon; they cast a stone upon me;
55I call upon thy name, O Jehovah, from the deep dungeon;
Cross References
Job 17:11My days are at an end; My plans are broken off; Even the treasures of my heart.
Psalms 18:4The snares of death encompassed me; The floods of destruction filled me with dismay;
Psalms 69:1“For the leader of the music. Upon the Shoshannim. A psalm of David.” Save me, O God! For the waters press in to my very life!
Psalms 124:4Then the waters had overwhelmed us; The stream had gone over our soul;
Isaiah 53:8By oppression and punishment he was taken away, And who in his generation would consider That he was cut off from the land of the living, That for the transgression of my people he was smitten?
Ezekiel 37:11And he said to me, Son of man, these bones denote the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, “Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost, and we are cut off.”
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 →