Lamentations 3:54
Waters flowed ouer mine head, then thought I, I am destroyed.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.
In Context
53They haue shut vp my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone vpon me.
55I called vpon thy Name, O Lord, out of the lowe dungeon.
Cross References
Job 17:11My dayes are past, mine enterprises are broken, and the thoughts of mine heart
Psalms 18:4The sorowes of death compassed me, and the floods of wickednes made me afraide.
Psalms 69:1To him that excelleth upon Shoshannim. A Psalme of David. Save mee, O God: for the waters are entred euen to my soule.
Psalms 124:4Then the waters had drowned vs, and the streame had gone ouer our soule:
Isaiah 53:8Hee was taken out from prison, and from iudgement: and who shall declare his age? for he was cut out of the lande of the liuing: for the transgression of my people was he plagued.
Ezekiel 37:11Then he sayd vnto me, Sonne of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is gone, and we are cleane 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 →