Lamentations 3:54
Waters, flowed over, my head, I said, I am cut off!
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.
In Context
53They have cut off, in the dungeon, my life, and have cast a stone upon me;
55I have called upon thy Name, O Yahweh, out of the dungeon below;
Cross References
Job 17:11My days, are past, my purposes, are broken off, the possessions of my heart!
Psalms 18:4The meshes of death encompassed me, The torrents of perdition, made me afraid;
Psalms 69:1Save me, O God, For waters have entered as far as the life;
Psalms 124:4Then, the waters, had whelmed us, the torrent, gone over our soul;
Isaiah 53:8By constraint and by sentence, was he taken away, And of his age, who considered That he was cut off out of the land of the living, For my people’s transgression, did the stroke fall on him?
Ezekiel 37:11Then said he unto me, Son of man. These bones, are all the house of Israel,— Lo! they are saying. Dried are our bones, and lost is our hope We are quite 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 →