Lamentations 3:54
Mayim flowed over mine rosh; 1 then I said: I am cut off. 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.
In Context
53They have cut off my life in the bor (pit) 1 and cast an even (stone) upon me. 1
55I called upon Thy Shem, Hashem, 1 out of the lowest pit. 1
Cross References
Job 17:11My yamim are past, 1 my plans are broken, 1 even the morashot (possessions, desires) of my lev. 1
Psalms 18:4I will call upon Hashem, Who is worthy to be praised; 1 so shall I be saved from mine oyevim. 1
Psalms 69:1(For the one directing. Al Shoshanim. Of Dovid) 1
Psalms 124:4Then the mayim would have overwhelmed us, 1 the torrent would have swept over nafsheinu (our nefesh); 1
Isaiah 53:8He was taken from prison and from judgment; 1 and who of his generation declared? 1 For he was cut off + 53:8 Dan 9:26; Lv 17:10 out of Eretz Chayyim + 53:8 this refers to the mot of Moshiach Ben Dovid, see v.12 1 mipesha ami (for the transgression of my people [Yisroel]), 1 nega + 53:8 cf. Ps 91:10 (plague) lamo ([fell] on him). + 53:8 i.e., Moshiach; in light of Ps 11:7 and Job 22:2 we are warranted in saying the suffix is a singular, “him,” not “them”. Cf Gn 9:26-27; Dt 33:2; Isa 44:15 ; also compare 1Chr 21:17 1
Ezekiel 37:11Then He said unto me, Ben Adam, these atzmot are the kol Bais Yisroel. Hinei, they say, Our atzmot are dried up, and tikvateinu (our hope) is gone; nigzarnu lanu (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 →