Lamentations 3:54 Cross References - Thomson

⁵⁴ Water was poured above upon my head. I said, I am cast off.

¹¹ my days have passed in groans, and my very heart strings are broken. ¹² I have put night for day. Is light near on account of darkness? ¹³ For though I have waited patiently, the mansion of the dead is to be my house, and my bed is made in darkness. ¹⁴ I have called on death to be my father; and on corruption to be my sister and mother. ¹⁵ Where then have I any ground of hope? Or shall I see those good things of mine? ¹⁶ Shall they go down with me to the mansion of the dead? Or shall we go together beneath the mound?

⁴ The pangs of death encompassed me; and floods of iniquity startled me.

²² As for me, on my surprisal I said, I am cast far from thy presence; therefore thou, Lord, didst hear the voice of my supplication when I cried to thee.

¹ For the conclusion. Respecting them who are to be changed. By David. Save me, God; for waters have broken in on my soul. ² I am sunk down into deep mire, and there is no support beneath. I am come into the depth of the sea, and a tempest hath overwhelmed me.

¹⁵ Let not a flood of water overwhelm me, nor a whirlpool swallow me up, nor a pit shut its mouth upon me.

⁴ the water might have overwhelmed us. Our soul hath passed through a torrent. ⁵ Hath our soul then passed through impetuous water?

¹⁰ I said in the height of my days I shall go down to the gates of Hades, I shall leave the years which remain. ¹¹ I said, I shall no more see the salvation of God in the land of the living; I shall no more see the salvation of Israel on the earth; I shall behold man no more. ¹² I am cut off from my generation, I have left the remainder of my life. He is gone and departed from me, like one striking a tent, having just pitched it. My soul within me was like a web which the weaver was in act to sever from the loom. ¹³ In that day I was delivered up until morning as to a lion. So did he break to pieces all my bones. For from day to night I was delivered up.

¹⁸ so my strength was destroyed and the hope which I had from the Lord.

¹¹ Then the Lord spoke to me saying, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Now they say, "Our bones are become dry. Our hope is gone. We are wasted to a shadow."

³ thou hast cast me into the depths of the heart of the sea. When streams encompassed me; all thy billows and thy waves passed over me. ⁴ Then I said, I am cast out from thy sight; nevertheless I will continue to look towards thy holy temple. ⁵ The water was poured around me to my soul; and the lowest abyss encompassed me; my head hath gone down into the clefts of mountains;

⁸ For we do not, brethren, wish you to be ignorant with respect to that affliction of ours which befel us in Asia; that we were exceedingly pressed beyond our strength, so that we had indeed no hopes of life; ⁹ but had in ourselves the sentence of death, that we might not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead, ¹⁰ who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will still deliver us,