53 They have shut up my life[a]in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.

54 Waters flowed over mine head, then thought I, I am destroyed.

55 I called upon thy Name, O Lord, out of the low dungeon.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 3:53 Read Jer. 37:16, how he was in the miry dungeon.

53 They tried to end my life in a pit(A)
    and threw stones at me;
54 the waters closed over my head,(B)
    and I thought I was about to perish.(C)

55 I called on your name, Lord,
    from the depths(D) of the pit.(E)

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