Lamentations 3:54
Good News Translation
Water began to close over me, and I thought death was near.

New Revised Standard Version
water closed over my head; I said, “I am lost.”

Contemporary English Version
Water covered my head--I thought I was gone.

New American Bible
The waters flowed over my head: and I said, “I am lost!”

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Sade. Waters have flowed over my head: I said: I am cut off.

waters

Psalm 18:4 The sorrows of death surrounded me: and the torrents of iniquity troubled me.

Psalm 69:1,2,15 Unto the end, for them that shall be changed; for David. [2] Save me, O God: for the waters are come in even unto my soul. . . .

Psalm 124:4,5 Perhaps the waters had swallowed us up. . . .

Jonah 2:3-5 And he said: I cried out of my affliction to the Lord, and he heard me: I cried out of the belly of hell, and thou hast heard my voice. . . .

I said

Lamentations 3:18 Vau. And I said: My end and my hope is perished from the Lord.

Job 17:11-16 My days have passed away, my thoughts are dissipated, tormenting my heart. . . .

Psalm 31:22 But I said in the excess of my mind: I am cast away from before thy eyes. Therefore thou hast heard the voice of my prayer, when I cried to thee.

Isaiah 38:10-13 I said: In the midst of my days I shall go to the gates of hell: I sought for the residue of my years. . . .

Ezekiel 37:11 And he said to me: Son of man: All these bones are the house of Israel: they say: Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost, and we are cut off.

2 Corinthians 1:8-10 For we would not have you ignorant, brethren, of our tribulation which came to us in Asia: that we were pressed out of measure above our strength, so that we were weary even of life. . . .

Context
God's Justice
53Sade. My life is fallen into the pit, and they have laid a stone over me. 54Sade. Waters have flowed over my head: I said: I am cut off.
Cross References
Job 22:11
And didst thou think that thou shouldst not see darkness, and that thou shouldst not be covered with the violence of overflowing waters?

Psalm 31:22
But I said in the excess of my mind: I am cast away from before thy eyes. Therefore thou hast heard the voice of my prayer, when I cried to thee.

Psalm 69:2
I stick fast in the mire of the deep and there is no sure standing. I am come into the depth of the sea, and a tempest hath overwhelmed me.

Psalm 88:16
Thy wrath hath come upon me: and thy terrors have troubled me.

Ezekiel 37:11
And he said to me: Son of man: All these bones are the house of Israel: they say: Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost, and we are cut off.

Jonah 2:3
And he said: I cried out of my affliction to the Lord, and he heard me: I cried out of the belly of hell, and thou hast heard my voice.

Jonah 2:5
And I said: I am cast away out of the sight of thy eyes: but yet I shall see the holy temple again.

Lamentations 3:53
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