Lamentations 3:54 Cross References - Matthew

⁵⁴ They poured water vpon my head, then thought I: now am I vndone.

¹¹ My dayes are past, my thoughtes are vanyshed awaye, whych haue vexed myne herte, ¹² chaunginge the nyght in to daye, and the light into darcknes. ¹³ Though I tary neuer so moch, yet the graue is my house, & I must make my bed in the darcke. ¹⁴ I call corrupcion my father, and the wormes call I my mother and my syster. ¹⁵ What helpeth then my longe taryenge? Or, who wyll fulfyll the thynge, that I loke for? ¹⁶ All that I haue, shall go downe in to the pyt, and lye with me in the duste.

⁴ The sorowes of deathe compassed me, and the brokes of vngodlynes made me afrayed.

²² For when the suddaine feare cam vpon me I said: I am cast out of thy sighte. Neuerthelesse, thou herdest myne humble prayer, when I cried vnto the.

¹ To the chaunter vpon Sosanim of Dauid. Helpe me, O god, for the waters are come in, euen vnto my soule. ² I stycke fast in the depe myre where no ground is: I am come into depe waters, and the floudes wyll drowne me.

¹⁵ Lest the water floud drowne me, that the depe swalowe me not vp, and that the pytte shut not her mouth vpon me.

⁴ Yea the waters had drowned vs, the streame had gone ouer oure soule. ⁵ The depe waters of the proud had gon euen vnto our soule.

¹⁰ I thought I shulde haue gone to the gates of hell in my best age, and haue wanted the resydue of my yeares. ¹¹ I spake with in my selfe: I shall neuer viset the Lorde God in this lyfe: I shall neuer se man amonge the dwellers of the worlde. ¹² Myne age is folden vp together, and taken awaye fro me, lyke a shepherdes cotage: my lyfe is hewen of, lyke as a weeuer cutteth of his webb. Whyle I was yet takynge my rest, he hewed me of, & made an ende of me in one day. ¹³ I thought I wolde haue lyued vnto the morow, but he brosed my bones lyke a lyon, and made an ende of me in one daye.

¹⁸ I thought in my selfe: I am vndone, there is no hope for me in the Lorde.

¹¹ Moreouer, he sayde vnto me: Thou sonne of man, these bones are the whole house of Israell. Beholde, they saye: Oure bones are dryed vp, oure hope is gone, we are clene cut of.

³ Thou haddest cast me downe depe in the myddest of the sea, and the floude compassed me aboute: yee all thy waues and roules of water went ouer me, ⁴ I thought that I had bene cast awaye out of thy syght: but I wyll yet agayne loke towarde thy holy temple. ⁵ The waters compased me, euen to the very soule, the depe laye aboute me, and the wedes were wrapte aboute myne head.

⁸ Brethren I woulde not haue you ignoraunt of oure trouble, whiche happened vnto vs in Asia. For we were greued out of measure passinge strength, so greatlye that we despeared euen of lyfe. ⁹ Also we receiued and aunswere of death in our selues, and that because we woulde not put oure truste in oure selues: but in God, whiche rayseth the dead to lyfe again, ¹⁰ & which delyuered vs from so greate a death, and doth delyuer. On whom we truste that yet here after he will delyuer,