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Selected Verse: Lamentations 3:54 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| La 3:54 |
King James |
Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off. |
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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
Waters--not literally, for there was "no water" (Jer 38:6) in the place of Jeremiah's confinement, but emblematical of overwhelming calamities (Psa 69:2; Psa 124:4-5).
cut off-- (Isa 38:10-11). I am abandoned by God. He speaks according to carnal sense. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| Waters flowed over mine head - A figurative expression for great mental trouble. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Cut off - I am undone, there is no hope for me. |
10 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.
11 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.
4 Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:
5 Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.
2 I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
6 Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.