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

Luke 11:10

Bible References

Waters

The cords of death encompassed me; the torrents of destruction assailed me;

Save me, O God! For the waters have come up to my neck.

then the flood would have swept us away, the torrent would have gone over us;

For you cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the flood surrounded me; all your waves and your billows passed over me.

I said

so I say, "My endurance has perished; so has my hope from the LORD."

My days are past; my plans are broken off, the desires of my heart.

I had said in my alarm, "I am cut off from your sight." But you heard the voice of my pleas for mercy when I cried to you for help.

I said, In the middle of my days I must depart; I am consigned to the gates of Sheol for the rest of my years.

Then he said to me, "Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, 'Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are indeed cut off.'

For we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, of the affliction we experienced in Asia. For we were so utterly burdened beyond our strength that we despaired of life itself.

General references

The waters closed in over me to take my life; the deep surrounded me; weeds were wrapped about my head

For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.