Lamentations 3:53
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“They dropped me alive into a pit and cast stones upon me.”
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BSBPD
“They dropped me alive into a pit and cast stones upon me.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone upon me.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“They have cut off in a pit my life, And they cast a stone against me.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Lamentations 3:53 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Jeremiah 37:16So Jeremiah went into a cell in the dungeon and remained there a long time.
- Jeremiah 37:20But now please listen, O my lord the king. May my petition come before you. Do not send me back to the house of Jonathan the scribe, or I will die there.”
- Jeremiah 38:6So they took Jeremiah and dropped him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son, which was in the courtyard of the guard. They lowered Jeremiah with ropes into the cistern, which had no water but only mud, and Jeremiah sank down into the mud.
- Jeremiah 38:9“My lord the king, these men have acted wickedly in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet. They have dropped him into the cistern, where he will starve to death, for there is no more bread in the city.”
- Daniel 6:17A stone was brought and placed over the mouth of the den, and the king sealed it with his own signet ring and with the rings of his nobles, so that nothing concerning Daniel could be changed.
- Daniel 6:18Then the king went to his palace and spent the night fasting. No entertainment was brought before him, and sleep fled from him.
- Matthew 27:60and placed it in his own new tomb that he had cut into the rock. Then he rolled a great stone across the entrance to the tomb and went away.
- Matthew 27:66So they went and secured the tomb by sealing the stone and posting the guard.
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