Lamentations 3:54 the waters closed over my head, and I thought I was about to perish.

◄ Lamentations 3:54 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
the waters closed over my head, and I thought I was about to perish.

English Standard Version
water closed over my head; I said, ‘I am lost.’

New American Standard Bible
Waters flowed over my head; I said, "I am cut off!"

King James Bible
Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Water flooded over my head, and I thought: I'm going to die!

International Standard Version
Water closed over my head, and I said, "I'm a dead man."

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
Sade. Waters have flowed over my head: I said: I am cut off.

Darby Bible Translation
Waters streamed over my head; I said, I am cut off.

Young's Literal Translation
Flowed have waters over my head, I have said, I have been cut off.

Cross References

Job 22:11
Or darkness, that you can not see; and abundance of waters cover you.

Psalm 31:22
For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before your eyes: nevertheless you heard the voice of my supplications when I cried to you.

Psalm 69:2
I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

Psalm 88:16
Your fierce wrath goes over me; your terrors have cut me off.

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, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.

Jonah 2:3
For you had cast me into the deep, in the middle of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all your billows and your waves passed over me.

Jonah 2:5
The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

3:42-54 The more the prophet looked on the desolations, the more he was grieved. Here is one word of comfort. While they continued weeping, they continued waiting; and neither did nor would expect relief and succour from any but the Lord.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

54. Waters—not literally, for there was "no water" (Jer 38:6) in the place of Jeremiah's confinement, but emblematical of overwhelming calamities (Ps 69:2; 124:4, 5).

cut off—(Isa 38:10, 11). I am abandoned by God. He speaks according to carnal sense.

Koph.