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Lamentations 3:54 KJV
Lamentations · chapter 3 · verse 54
Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.Lamentations 3:54 · King James Version
Lamentations 3:54 in context
52Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
53They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
54Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.
55I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
56Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- WatersmayimwaterH4325 →
- headrôʼshthe head , whether literal or figurativeH7218 →
- saidʼâmarto sayH559 →
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It is easier to chide ourselves for complaining than to chide ourselves out of it. The prophet had owned that a living man should not complain, as if he checked himself for his complaints in the former part of the chapter; and yet here the clouds return after the rain and the wound bleeds afresh;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 42-54