They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone on me.
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They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone on me.
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They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast stones upon me.
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Passages linked to Lamentations 3:53 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Jeremiah 38:6 Then they took Jeremiah and threw him into the dungeon of Malchijah the king’s son, that was in the court of the guard. They let down Jeremiah with cords. In the dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire.
- Jeremiah 38:9 “My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon. He is likely to die in the place where he is, because of the famine; for there is no more bread in the city.”
- Daniel 6:17 A stone was brought, and laid on the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his own signet, and with the signet of his lords; that nothing might be changed concerning Daniel.
- Jeremiah 37:16 When Jeremiah had come into the dungeon house, and into the cells, and Jeremiah had remained there many days,
- Jeremiah 37:20 Now please hear, my lord the king: please let my supplication be presented before you, that you not cause me to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.”
- Matthew 27:60 and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had cut out in the rock, and he rolled a great stone against the door of the tomb, and departed.
- Matthew 27:66 So they went with the guard and made the tomb secure, sealing the stone.
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John Calvin 1540 · Public Domain He now employs other comparisons. Some improperly confine this…
He now employs other comparisons. Some improperly confine this to Jeremiah himself, as though he explained here before God the wrongs done to himself: but there is no doubt but that he undertakes the cause of the whole people; and his object was to encourage by his own example the faithful to lament their state so that they might obtain pardon from God.
He then compares himself to a man half-dead, cast into a pit, and there left for lost. Then some improperly interpret the words, “they cast stones;” for stoning was not in the mind of the Prophet; but having said that he was fast bound in a pit or dungeon, he adds that a stone was laid over him, that lie might not come forth, as we know was the case with Daniel. (Daniel 6:16, 17.) Daniel was cast into the den of lions, and then a stone was put on the mouth of the den. So also the Prophet says, that he was bound fast in the pit, and not only that, but that a stone was laid over him, that there might be no hope of coming out; and thus the pit was like a grave. Here, then, he means that lie was reduced to the last extremity, because he had not only been taken by his enemies, but had also been cast into a pit. And, as it is well known, it is a metaphorical expression or a similitude. He adds, —
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Read Jer. 37:16, how he was in the miry…
Read Jer. 37:16, how he was in the miry dungeon.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Lam 3:53 They have cut off my life in…
Lam 3:53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
Ver. 53. They have cut off my life in the dungeon.] Where I led a lifeless life; such as did Roger, Bishop of Salisbury, in King Stephen’s time, who sustained such miseries in prison, ut vivere noluerit, mori nescierit, that live he would not, and yet die he could not.
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And cast a stone upon me.] As they did upon the mouths of dens, dungeons, or sepulchres, to make sure work. The Chaldee hath it, They stoned me.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Dungeon seemeth not to be here taken literally, for…
Dungeon seemeth not to be here taken literally, for the lowest and nastiest place in prisons, which probably was the portion but of a few of the Jews; but metaphorically, for the lowest and saddest condition of misery. Their enemies had brought them into the deepest miseries, to the cutting off of their lives; and as men use to roll great stones upon the mouths of dens and pits, where they have shut up persons, to make them sure from escaping out, so their enemies had dealt with them, doing what lay in them to make their condition remediless and desperate.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain O Lord, thou hast pleaded the cause of my…
O Lord, thou hast pleaded the cause of my soul,.... Or, causes of "my soul", or "life" (u); such as concerned his soul and life: not one only, but many of them; and this respects not Jeremiah only, and the Lord's pleading his cause against Zedekiah and his nobles; but the people of the Jews in former times, when in Egypt, and in the times of the judges:
thou hast redeemed my life; by delivering out of the pit and dungeon, where it was in danger; and not only him, but the whole body of the people of old out of Egypt, and out of the hands of their enemies, the Philistines and others.
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(u) "causas animaa meae", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Dungeon - Dungeon seems here to be taken for…
Dungeon - Dungeon seems here to be taken for the lowest condition of misery.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain They have cut off my life in the dungeon…
They have cut off my life in the dungeon - Or, “They destroyed my life in the pit,” i. e. tried to destroy it by casting me into the cistern, and covering the month with a stone. See the margin reference.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Over me, as if I were buried. (Haydock) ---…
Over me, as if I were buried. (Haydock) --- Jeremias was in prison (chap. xxxviii. 6.) when he prayed, ver. 54., and chap. xx. 7. (Calmet)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain in . . . dungeon-- (Jer 37:16).
in . . . dungeon-- (Jer 37:16).
stone--usually put at the mouth of a dungeon to secure the prisoners (Jos 10:18; Dan 6:17; Mat 27:60).
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 53. Cast a stone, etc. — They covered the…
53. Cast a stone, etc. — They covered the pit in which the prophet was confined with a stone, to make escape hopeless.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (53) Cast a stone upon me.—The words admit of…
(53) Cast a stone upon me.—The words admit of two meanings: (1) that they cast stones at him; (2) that they placed a stone over the opening of his dungeon so as to prevent escape.
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