Lamentations 3:54
Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.
Lamentations 3:54 in other translations
| BSB | The waters flowed over my head, and I thought I was going to die. |
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| WEB | Waters flowed over my head. I said, “I am cut off.” |
| ASV | Waters flowed over my head; I said, I am cut off. |
| YLT | Flowed have waters over my head, I have said, I have been cut off. |
| DARBY | Waters streamed over my head; I said, I am cut off. |
| BBE | Waters were flowing over my head; I said, I am cut off. |
| Webster | Waters flowed over my head; then I said, I am cut off. |
What does Lamentations 3:54 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Lamentations 3:52-54
52-54. 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).
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Lamentations 3:42-54
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.
Lamentations 3:54 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Lamentations 3:54
- Jonah 2:3-5
For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me. Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple. The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.
- Ezekiel 37:11
Then he said unto 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.
- Psalms 18:4
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.
- Psalms 69:1-2
To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, A Psalm of David. Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul. I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
- 2 Corinthians 1:8-10
For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life: But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead: Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;
- Lamentations 3:18
And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the Lord:
- Psalms 31:22
For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.
- Psalms 69:15
Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
- Job 17:11-16
My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart. They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness. If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness. I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister. …
- Isaiah 38:10-13
I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years. I said, I shall not see the Lord, even the Lord, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world. Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd’s tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me. I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
- Psalms 124:4-5
Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul: Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.
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Ps 18:4; 69:1,2,15; 124:4,5; Jon 2:3-5
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18; Job 17:11-16; Ps 31:22; Isa 38:10-13; Eze 37:11; 2Co 1:8-10
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Context
- Lamentations 3:53
They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
- Lamentations 3:54
Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.
- Lamentations 3:55
I called upon thy name, O Lord, out of the low dungeon.
Lamentations 3:54 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Aguas de avenida vinieron sobre mi cabeza; yo dije: Muerto soy. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Les eaux ont coulé par-dessus ma tête; j’ai dit: Je suis retranché! |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Wasser strömten über mein Haupt; ich sprach: Ich bin abgeschnitten! |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Inundaverunt aquæ super caput meum; dixi: Perii. |