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 sorrows of death hemmed me in, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.

To the Chief Musician. Concerning the Lilies. A Psalm of David. Save me, O God! for the waters have come in on my soul.

then the waters would have flowed over us, the stream would have gone over our soul;

For You cast me into the depths of the seas, and the current surrounded me. All Your breakers and Your waves passed over me.

I said

And I said, My strength and my hope from Jehovah are gone.

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

For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before Your eyes; surely You heard the voice of my cries, when I cried to You.

I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave; I have numbered the rest of my years.

And He said to 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 by ourselves.

For, brothers, we would not have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength; so much so that we despaired even of life.

General references

Waters encompassed me, even to the soul; the depth closed around me; the seaweed was bound to my head.

For everyone who asks receives. And he who seeks finds. And to him who knocks it shall be opened.