over mine head. Compare Psalms 69:2.
I am cut off. Compare Psalms 88:5.
Waters flowed over mine head - A figurative expression for great mental trouble.
Lamentations 3. The Third Lament. Here it is the singer that comes chiefly to the front; whereas in Lamentations 3:1 it had been Zion, and in La...
He now adds a third comparison, — that he had been overwhelmed, as it were, with a flood of evils. This similitude occurs often in Scripture, e...
DISCOURSE: 1095 THE EFFICACY OF PRAYER Lamentations 3:54-57 . Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off. I called upon thy name, O...
Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.
Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause. Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird - which is destitute of counsel and strengt...
Zion's Hope in God's Mercy This third poem is the most elaborate in structure and the most sublime in thought of all. The poet speaks not only for...
GRIEVING BEFORE GOD Lamentations 3:43-54 AS might have been expected, the mourning patriot quickly forsakes the patch of sunshine which lights...
In this central and longest poem, Jeremiah identified himself completely with the experiences of his people. In the first movement, in language which...
They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. The LORD is good unto the...
Waters flowed over mine head ,.... As in a pit or dungeon, where there is not only mire and clay, but much water, into which persons being put, sink...
Waters flowed over mine head; [then] I said, I am cut off. Ver. 54. Waters flowed over mine head. ] Many and great miseries have overwhelmed and o...
Mine enemies chased me sore “The prophet in this, and the following verses, describes his own sufferings, when his enemies seized him and put him i...
Complaining to God. B. C. 588. 42 We...
Afflictions often in Scripture are called waters , Isaiah 28:17,18 Isaiah 59:19 . I am cut off; that is, I am utterly undone, there is no hop...
The Prophet Looks Back On His Own Experiences And Calls On YHWH To Avenge Him ( Lamentations 3:52-66 ). The chapter commenced with the personal ex...
EXEGETICAL NOTES. — (צ) Lamentations 3:52 . They have hunted me down like a bird is hunted when pursued with the eagerness of those who are my...
We are about to read a chapter which is very full of sorrow; while you are listening to it, some of you may be saying, «We are not in that condition....
Lamentations 3:52-55 . Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause. They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me....
The Metre changes here. The letters of the Hebrew alphabet, twenty two in number, begin three hemistichs, which make sixty six verses. It would look...
EXPOSITION Lamentations 3:1-25 MONOLOGUE SPOKEN BY AN INDIVIDUAL BELIEVER WHOSE FATE IS BOUND UP WITH THAT OF...
Confession of Sin and Complaint over the Cruelty of the Enemies
Waters flowed over mine head, the picture of a flood of waters being used to give some idea of the greatness and intensity of his suffering; then I...
Daniel 6:17 ; Jeremiah 37:20 ; Jeremiah 38:6 ; Jeremiah 38:9 ; Matthew 27:60 ; Matthew 27:66
Cut off — I am undone, there is no hope for me.
54 Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.