Lamentations 3:53-55

New English Translation

⁵³They shut me^[a] up in a pit
and threw stones at me.
⁵⁴The waters closed over my head;
I thought^[b] I was about to die.^[c]

⁵⁵I have called on your name, O Lord,
from the deepest pit.^[d]

Lamentations 3:53 tn Heb “my life.”
Lamentations 3:54 tn Heb “I said,” meaning “I said to myself” = “I thought.”
Lamentations 3:54 tn Heb “I was about to be cut off.” The verb נִגְזָרְתִּי (nigzarti), Niphal perfect first person common singular from גָּזַר (gazar, “to be cut off”), functions in an ingressive sense: “about to be cut off.” It is used in reference to the threat of death (e.g., Ezek 37:11; Ps 88:5). To be “cut off” from the land of the living means to experience death (Isa 53:8).
Lamentations 3:55 tn Heb “from a pit of lowest places.”

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