Lamentations 3:54
Waters flowed over my head; then I said, I am cut off.
Webster 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 dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
55I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
Cross References
Job 17:11My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
Psalms 18:4The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.
Psalms 69:1To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, A Psalm of David. Save me, O God; for the waters are come in to my soul.
Psalms 124:4Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:
Isaiah 53:8He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off from the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
Ezekiel 37:11Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.
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 →