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 compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.

To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, A Psalm of David. Save me, O God; for the waters are come in to my soul.

Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:

For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods encompassed me: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.

I said

And I said, My strength and my hope hath perished from the LORD:

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

For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thy eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried to thee.

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.

Then 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 for our parts.

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, so that we despaired even of life:

General references

The waters encompassed me, even to the soul: the depth inclosed me on every side, the weeds were wrapped about my head.

For every one that asketh, receiveth; and he that seeketh, findeth; and to him that knocketh, the door shall be opened.