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Lamentations 3:54
54The water covered my head. Then I said, ‘I will soon die.’
Lamentations 3:54 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.
- New International Version (NIV)the waters closed over my head, and I thought I was about to perish.
- English Standard Version (ESV)water closed over my head; I said, 'I am lost.'
- New King James Version (NKJV)The waters flowed over my head; I said, “I am cut off!”
Context of Lamentations 3:54
52My enemies had no reason to follow me. But they caught me as they would catch a bird. 53They put me alive into the well, and they threw stones down on me. The water covered my head. Then I said, ‘I will soon die.’ 55I shouted your name, Lord, when I was in the well. 56‘Please listen to me, Lord,’ I shouted. ‘Help me! Save me!’ I shouted, and you heard me.
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צָֽפוּ־מַ֥יִם עַל־רֹאשִׁ֖י אָמַ֥רְתִּי נִגְזָֽרְתִּי׃ סRead the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Lamentations 3:54
- Psalms 18:4Death was near enough to catch me! Danger was like a river that poured over me.
- Psalms 69:1Please rescue me, God, because the deep water has come up to my neck.
- Psalms 124:4They would have been too strong for us, like rivers of waters that covered us,
- Jonah 2:3You threw me into the deep water, and I fell into the middle of the sea. The deep water covered me. You sent big waves to roll over me.
- Lamentations 3:18I tell myself, ‘Everything good has finished for me! The things that I hoped for from the Lord have not come!’
- Job 17:11I will not live for many more days. I will never do the things that I wanted to do.
- Psalms 31:22When I was afraid, I said, ‘God is no longer with me!’ But I spoke too soon. When I called to you for help, you heard me and you answered me.
- Isaiah 38:10I thought that I might die in the middle of my life. I thought that I would go into the deep hole of death, before I had lived all the years of my life.
- Ezekiel 37:11Then the Lord said to me, ‘Son of man, these bones are a picture of all Israel's people. The Israelites are saying, “Our bones are dead and dry. There are no good things that we can hope for. We have come to an end.”
- 2 Corinthians 1:8Our Christian friends, we want you to know about the trouble that we had in Asia. Those troubles were very painful. We ourselves were not strong enough to continue. We even thought that we would die.
Commentaries on Lamentations 3:54
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 54Waters flowed over mine head - A figurative expression for great mental trouble.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 42-54Verses 42-54 The more the prophet looked on the desolations, the more he was grieved. Here is one word of comfort. While they continued weeping, they continued waiting; and neither did nor would expect relief and succour from any but the Lord.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 52-57This passage might refer to Jeremiah’s experience in the cistern (Jeremiah 37:11–15; 38:1–13).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 52-5452-54. a bird--which is destitute of counsel and strength. The allusion seems to be to Pr 1:17 [Calvin]. without cause--(Psa 69:4; 109:3, 4). Type of Messiah (Joh 15:25).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Lamentations 3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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