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Read Full Chapter (Lamentations 3) Lamentations 3:53-55 KJV
"They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me. Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off. I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon."
Lamentations Chapter 3, Verse 53-55
Lamentations 3:53-55 in Context (Verses 50–58 KJV)
50
Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.
51
Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.**
52
Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
53
They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
54
Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.
55
¶ I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
56
Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.
57
Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.
58
O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.