Waters flowed over my head. I said, “I am cut off.”
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Waters flowed over my head. I said, “I am cut off.”
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Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.
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Waters flowed over my head; I said: 'I am cut off.'
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Passages linked to Lamentations 3:54 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Jonah 2:3-5 For you threw me into the depths, in the heart of the seas. The flood was all around me. All your waves and your billows passed over me. I said, ‘I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.’ The waters surrounded me, even to the soul. The deep was around me. The weeds were wrapped around my head.
- Ezekiel 37:11 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 completely cut off.’
- Psalms 18:4 The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.
- Lamentations 3:18 I said, “My strength has perished, along with my expectation from Yahweh.”
- 2 Corinthians 1:8-10 For we don’t desire to have you uninformed, brothers, concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life. Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead, who delivered us out of so great a death, and does deliver; on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us;
- Job 17:11-16 My days are past. My plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart. They change the night into day, saying ‘The light is near’ in the presence of darkness. If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness, if I have said to corruption, ‘You are my father;’ to the worm, ‘My mother,’ and ‘My sister,’ where then is my hope? as for my hope, who will see it? Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?”
- Psalms 31:22 As for me, I said in my haste, “I am cut off from before your eyes.” Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.
- Psalms 69:1-2 Save me, God, for the waters have come up to my neck! I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
- Psalms 69:15 Don’t let the flood waters overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up. Don’t let the pit shut its mouth on me.
- Psalms 124:4-5 then the waters would have overwhelmed us, the stream would have gone over our soul; then the proud waters would have gone over our soul.
- Isaiah 38:10-13 I said, “In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the residue of my years.” I said, “I won’t see Yah, Yah in the land of the living. I will see man no more with the inhabitants of the world. My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver. He will cut me off from the loom. From day even to night you will make an end of me. I waited patiently until morning. He breaks all my bones like a lion. From day even to night you will make an end of me.
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John Calvin 1540 · Public Domain He now adds a third comparison, — that he…
He now adds a third comparison, — that he had been overwhelmed, as it were, with a flood of evils. This similitude occurs often in Scripture, especially in the Psalms; for when David wished to set forth his despair, lie said that he was sunk in deep waters. (Psalm 69:15, 16.) So also in this place the Prophet complains, that waters had flowed over his head, so that he thought himself lost. Though, indeed, this was the saying of a man in a hopeless state, it is yet evident from the context that the Prophet was firm in the hope of God’s mercy. But he speaks according to the judgment of the flesh; and we know that the faithful are as it were divided; for as they have not put off the flesh, they must necessarily be acquainted with adversities, be stormed by fear and feel anxieties; in short, when death hangs over them, they must in a manner be exposed to fear. In the meantime, faith in their hearts obtains the victory, so that they do not succumb under terrors, or cares, or anxieties.
When, therefore, the Prophet says that in his own judgment he was lost, he does not mean that his faith was so extinguished that he ceased to pray to God; for in the next verse he shews that he persevered in prayer. How, then, did he say or believe that he was lost? even, as I have already said, according to human judgment. And we often see that the faithful complain that they are forsaken, that God is asleep in heaven, that he has turned away from them. All these things are to be referred to the perception of the flesh. While, then, the faithful cast their eyes on dangers, when death comes, they not only tremble, but fear greatly and faint also. In the meantime, as I have said, they struggle by faith against all these temptations. So, then, is this passage to be understood, — that the Prophet believed that he was lost, that is, as far as he could judge by the aspect of things at that time, for no hope appeared then to the Church. But we yet see that the Prophet did not indulge himself in this despair; for he immediately adds, —
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Lam 3:54 Waters flowed over mine head; [then] I…
Lam 3:54 Waters flowed over mine head; [then] I said, I am cut off.
Ver. 54. Waters flowed over mine head.] Many and great miseries have overwhelmed and oppressed me, both in body and soul. These are frequently compared to waters.
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Then I said, I am cut off,] sc., From the land of the living; but God was better to me than my hopes.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Afflictions often in Scripture are called waters, Isa 28:17,18;…
Afflictions often in Scripture are called waters, Isa 28:17,18; 59:19.
I am cut off; that is, I am utterly undone, there is no hope for me.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain O Lord, thou hast seen my wrong,.... Or, "my…
O Lord, thou hast seen my wrong,.... Or, "my perverseness" (w); not that he or they had been guilty of; but the wrong that was done to him and them by their enemies; how perverse and ill natured they had been to them; how badly they had used them; what injuries they had done them; none of which escaped the omniscience of God, to which the appeal is made; and upon this follows a petition:
judge thou my cause; the present one; as thou hast pleaded and judged many already, do me justice, right my wrongs, an, save me from mine enemies; and let it appear to all the world my cause is just, and they are in the wrong.
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(w) "perversitatem", Pagninus, Montanus; "quae exercetur, vel exercebatur in me", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Cut off - I am undone, there is no…
Cut off - I am undone, there is no hope for me.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Waters flowed over mine head - A figurative expression…
Waters flowed over mine head - A figurative expression for great mental trouble.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain Waters--not literally, for there was "no water" (Jer 38:6)…
Waters--not literally, for there was "no water" (Jer 38:6) in the place of Jeremiah's confinement, but emblematical of overwhelming calamities (Psa 69:2; Psa 124:4-5).
cut off-- (Isa 38:10-11). I am abandoned by God. He speaks according to carnal sense.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 54. Waters flowed — Figurative language, but such as…
54. Waters flowed — Figurative language, but such as would be very naturally suggested from the circumstance of using underground cisterns for dungeons. Jeremiah’s troubles overwhelmed him, and his case was as hopeless as though “waters” had literally “flowed over” his head. This verse is, in thought, similar to that used by Jonah in chap. Lam_2:5.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 54. Waters flowed over mine head] figuratively. So in…
54. Waters flowed over mine head] figuratively. So in Psa_42:7; Psa_69:2, which latter Ps. was traditionally ascribed to Jeremiah.
I am cut off] Cp. Psa_31:22; Psa_88:5; 2Ch_26:21; Isa_53:8.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain I am cut off. Some words have to be…
I am cut off. Some words have to be supplied, and Psa_31:22 suggests which these are: am cut off from before thine eyes," i.e. from the region on which the eyes of God rest.
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