Lamentations 3:54
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“The waters flowed over my head, and I thought I was going to die.”
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BSBPD
“The waters flowed over my head, and I thought I was going to die.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Waters flowed over my head; I said, I am cut off.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“Flowed have waters over my head, I have said, I have been cut off.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Lamentations 3:54 — 16 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 17:11My days have passed; my plans are broken off— even the desires of my heart.
- Job 22:11it is so dark you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you.
- Psalms 18:4The cords of death encompassed me; the torrents of chaos overwhelmed me.
- Psalms 31:22In my alarm I said, “I am cut off from Your sight!” But You heard my plea for mercy when I called to You for help.
- Psalms 69:1Save me, O God, for the waters are up to my neck.
- Psalms 69:15Do not let the floods engulf me or the depths swallow me up; let not the Pit close its mouth over me.
- Psalms 124:4then the floods would have engulfed us, then the torrent would have overwhelmed us,
- Isaiah 38:10I said, “In the prime of my life I must go through the gates of Sheol and be deprived of the remainder of my years.”
- Isaiah 53:8By oppression and judgment He was taken away, and who can recount His descendants? For He was cut off from the land of the living; He was stricken for the transgression of My people.
- Lamentations 3:18So I say, “My strength has perished, along with my hope from the LORD.”
- Ezekiel 37:11Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Look, they are saying, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope has perished; we are cut off.’
- Jonah 2:3For You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the current swirled about me; all Your breakers and waves swept over me.
- Jonah 2:4At this, I said, ‘I have been banished from Your sight; yet I will look once more toward Your holy temple.’
- Jonah 2:5The waters engulfed me to take my life; the watery depths closed around me; the seaweed wrapped around my head.
- Luke 11:10For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.
- 2 Corinthians 1:8We do not want you to be unaware, brothers, of the hardships we encountered in the province of Asia. We were under a burden far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired even of life.
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