Lamentations 3:53
They have cut off, in the dungeon, my life, and have cast a stone upon me;
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
In Context
52They, have laid snares, for me as a bird, who are mine enemies without cause:
54Waters, flowed over, my head, I said, I am cut off!
Cross References
Jeremiah 37:16When Jeremiah had entered into the dungeon-house and into the cells, and Jeremiah, had remained there many days,
Jeremiah 38:6Then took they Jeremiah and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah son of the king, which was in the guard-court, and they let Jeremiah down with ropes,—now, in the dungeon, was no water only mire, so Jeremiah sank in the mire.
Daniel 6:17And there was brought a certain stone, and laid upon the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his own signet-ring, and with the signet-ring of his nobles, that nothing might be changed, as to Daniel.
Matthew 27:60and laid it in his new tomb, which he had hewn in the rock, and, rolling near a large stone unto the door of the tomb, departed.
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 →