Lamentations 3:53 “They dropped me alive into a pit and cast stones upon me.”

Lamentations 3:53

They dropped me alive into a pit and cast stones upon me.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

They haue shut vp my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone vpon me.

Darby Translation

They have cut off my life in a pit, and cast a stone upon me.

Young's Literal Translation

They have cut off in a pit my life, And they cast a stone against me.

Bible in Basic English

They have put an end to my life in the prison, stoning me with stones.

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Cross references

“cut”

Jeremiah 38:6 Jeremiah 38:9 Jeremiah 37:20

Jeremiah 38:6 · BSB

So they took Jeremiah and dropped him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son, which was in the courtyard of the guard. They lowered Jeremiah with ropes into the cistern, which had no water but only mud, and Jeremia…

Jeremiah 38:9 · BSB

“My lord the king, these men have acted wickedly in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet. They have dropped him into the cistern, where he will starve to death, for there is no more bread in the city.”

Jeremiah 37:20 · BSB

But now please listen, O my lord the king. May my petition come before you. Do not send me back to the house of Jonathan the scribe, or I will die there.”

“and”

Daniel 6:17 Matthew 27:60 Matthew 27:66

Daniel 6:17 · BSB

A stone was brought and placed over the mouth of the den, and the king sealed it with his own signet ring and with the rings of his nobles, so that nothing concerning Daniel could be changed.

Matthew 27:60 · BSB

and placed it in his own new tomb that he had cut into the rock. Then he rolled a great stone across the entrance to the tomb and went away.

Matthew 27:66 · BSB

So they went and secured the tomb by sealing the stone and posting the guard.

Also

Jeremiah 37:16

Jeremiah 37:16 · BSB

So Jeremiah went into a cell in the dungeon and remained there a long time.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

52Without cause my enemies hunted me like a bird.

54The waters flowed over my head, and I thought I was going to die.

Read Lamentations 3