Lamentations 3:53 Meaning and Explanation
“They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.”
King James Version (KJV)
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Read Full Chapter →His enemies tried to end his life in a pit and sealed him in with a stone.
What Does Lamentations 3:53 Mean?
The persecution reaches its extreme: 'They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.' He is thrown into a pit, a place of darkness and death, and a stone is rolled over him to seal him in. It is the image of being buried alive, cut off from the living, abandoned to die in the depths.
The picture of one entombed under a stone, given up for dead, cannot fail to stir Christian memory of a greater deliverance, of a stone rolled over a tomb that could not hold its occupant. Here the sufferer is at the point of death, sealed in the dungeon. Yet the next verses will show that this was not the end. From the lowest pit, with a stone above him, he will call upon the name of the LORD, and be heard.
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What does Lamentations 3:53 mean?
His enemies tried to end his life in a pit and sealed him in with a stone.