Lamentations 3:54

World English Bible (2000)

Waters flowed over my head; I said, I am cut off.

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Referenced Verses

  • Jonah 2:3-5 : 3 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. 4 I said, 'I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.' 5 The waters surrounded me, even to the soul. The deep was around me. The weeds were wrapped around my head.
  • Ezek 37:11 : 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 clean cut off.
  • 2 Cor 1:8-9 : 8 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. 9 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, 10 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 : 11 My days are past, my plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart. 12 They change the night into day, saying 'The light is near' in the presence of darkness. 13 If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness, 14 If I have said to corruption, 'You are my father;' to the worm, 'My mother,' and 'my sister;' 15 where then is my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it? 16 Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?"
  • Ps 18:4 : 4 The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.
  • Ps 31:22 : 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.
  • Ps 69:1-2 : 1 Save me, God, for the waters have come up to my neck! 2 I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
  • Ps 69:15 : 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.
  • Ps 124:4-5 : 4 then the waters would have overwhelmed us, the stream would have gone over our soul; 5 then the proud waters would have gone over our soul.
  • Isa 38:10-13 : 10 I said, "In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the residue of my years." 11 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. 12 My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me like a shepherd's tent. I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life. He will cut me off from the loom. From day even to night you will make an end of me. 13 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.
  • Lam 3:18 : 18 I said, My strength is perished, and my expectation from Yahweh.

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    53They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone on me.

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    3For 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.

    4I said, 'I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.'

    5The waters surrounded me, even to the soul. The deep was around me. The weeds were wrapped around my head.

    6I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever: yet have you brought up my life from the pit, Yahweh my God.

  • Ps 69:1-2
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    1Save me, God, for the waters have come up to my neck!

    2I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

  • Ps 42:7
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    7Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.

  • 2 Sam 22:5-6
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    6The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death caught me.

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    55I called on your name, Yahweh, out of the lowest dungeon.

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    22As 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.

  • Ps 124:4-5
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    4then the waters would have overwhelmed us, the stream would have gone over our soul;

    5then the proud waters would have gone over our soul.

  • 2 Sam 22:17
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    17They came around me like water all day long. They completely engulfed me.

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    24I have dug and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt.'

  • Lam 3:17-18
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    17You have removed my soul far off from peace; I forgot prosperity.

    18I said, My strength is perished, and my expectation from Yahweh.

  • Ps 143:3-4
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    4Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within me is desolate.

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    71%

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    71%

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    71%

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