Lamentations 3:54

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Summary

Lamentations 3:54

Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.

Waters

I said

General references

Jonah 2:5

Bible References

Waters

The meshes of death encompassed me, The torrents of perdition, made me afraid;

Save me, O God, For waters have entered as far as the life;

Then, the waters, had whelmed us, the torrent, gone over our soul;

For thou hast cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and, a flood, enveloped me, - All thy breakers and thy rolling waves, over me, passed.

I said

And I said, Vanished is mine endurance, even mine expectation, from Yahweh.

My days, are past, my purposes, are broken off, the possessions of my heart!

But, I, had said in mine alarm, I am cut off from before thine eyes, - But, indeed, thou didst hear the voice of my supplication, when I cried for help unto thee.

I, said - In the noontide of my days, I must enter the gates of hades, - I am deprived of the residue of ray years!

Then said he unto me, Son of man. These bones, are all the house of Israel, - Lo! they are saying. Dried are our bones, and lost is our hope We are quite cut off!

For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, as to our tribulation which happened in Asia, - that, exceedingly, beyond power, were we weighed down, so that we despaired, even of life.

General references

The waters, encompassed me, to the peril of my life, The roaring deep, enveloped me, - The sea-weed, was wrapped about my head: