Lamentations 3:54
Flowed have waters over my head, I have said, I have been cut off.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.
In Context
53They have cut off in a pit my life, And they cast a stone against me.
55I called Thy name, O Jehovah, from the lower pit.
Cross References
Job 17:11My days have passed by, My devices have been broken off, The possessions of my heart!
Psalms 18:4Compassed me have cords of death, And streams of the worthless make me afraid.
Psalms 69:1To the Overseer. — 'On the Lilies,' by David. Save me, O God, for come have waters unto the soul.
Psalms 124:4Then the waters had overflowed us, The stream passed over our soul,
Isaiah 53:8By restraint and by judgment he hath been taken, And of his generation who doth meditate, That he hath been cut off from the land of the living? By the transgression of My people he is plagued,
Ezekiel 37:11And He saith unto me, 'Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel; lo, they are saying: Dried up have our bones, And perished hath our hope, We have been cut off by ourselves.
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 →