Lamentations 3:53

“They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.”

"They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me." - Lamentations 3:53
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What does Lamentations 3:53 mean?

The verse Lamentations 3:53 in the King James Version of the Bible reads, "They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me." This verse comes from the Book of Lamentations, which is a collection of poetic laments over the destruction of Jerusalem and the…

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Emerging from the Dungeon of Despair

Lamentations 3:53, in the King James Version, poignantly states, "They have cut off my life in the dungeon; and cast a stone upon me." These words, penned amidst the despair of a fallen Jerusalem, resonate deeply with many who traverse through their own valleys of despondency…

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Prayer of Restoration in the Depths of Despair

O Heavenly Father, I come before You today with a heart heavy with burdens, echoing the lament of the prophet in Lamentations 3:53, "They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me." In these words I find the deep anguish of a soul ensnared by despair, trapped…

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Lamentations 3:1-18
Lamentations 3:31 - "For the Lord will not cast off for ever:"
Lamentations 3:23 - "They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness."
Lamentations 5:3 - "We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows."
Lamentations 3:36 - "To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not."
Lamentations 3:3 - "Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day."
Lamentations 3:27 - "It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth."
Lamentations 3:38 - "Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?"
Lamentations 3:47 - "Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction."
Lamentations 3:19 - "Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall."
Lamentations 3:34 - "To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,"
Lamentations 3:50 - "Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven."
Lamentations 3:37 - "¶ Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?"
Lamentations 3:29 - "He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope."
Lamentations 3:2 - "He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light."
Lamentations 3:21 - "This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope."
Lamentations 3:45 - "Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people."
Lamentations 3:49 - "Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,"
Lamentations 3:20 - "My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me."
Lamentations 3:35 - "To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,"
Lamentations 3:46 - "All our enemies have opened their mouths against us."
Lamentations 3:63 - "Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick."
Lamentations 3:33 - "For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men."
Lamentations 3:65 - "Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them."