Lamentations 3:54

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Lamentations 3:52–56 · Berean Standard Bible

52 Without cause my enemies hunted me like a bird.

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

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

55 I called on Your name, O LORD, out of the depths of the Pit.

56 You heard my plea: “Do not ignore my cry for relief.”

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Psalms 18:4

The cords of death encompassed me; the torrents of chaos overwhelmed me.

Psalms 69:1

Save me, O God, for the waters are up to my neck.

Psalms 69:2

I have sunk into the miry depths, where there is no footing; I have drifted into deep waters, where the flood engulfs me.

Psalms 69:15

Do not let the floods engulf me or the depths swallow me up; let not the Pit close its mouth over me.

Psalms 124:4

then the floods would have engulfed us, then the torrent would have overwhelmed us,

Psalms 124:5

then the raging waters would have swept us away.

Jonah 2:3

For You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the current swirled about me; all Your breakers and waves swept over me.

Jonah 2:4

At this, I said, ‘I have been banished from Your sight; yet I will look once more toward Your holy temple.’

Jonah 2:5

The waters engulfed me to take my life; the watery depths closed around me; the seaweed wrapped around my head.

Lamentations 3:18

So I say, “My strength has perished, along with my hope from the LORD.”

Job 17:11

My days have passed; my plans are broken off— even the desires of my heart.

Job 17:12

They have turned night into day, making light seem near in the face of darkness.

Job 17:13

If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,

Job 17:14

and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’

Job 17:15

where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me?

Job 17:16

Will it go down to the gates of Sheol? Will we go down together into the dust?”

Psalms 31:22

In my alarm I said, “I am cut off from Your sight!” But You heard my plea for mercy when I called to You for help.

Isaiah 38:10

I said, “In the prime of my life I must go through the gates of Sheol and be deprived of the remainder of my years.”

Isaiah 38:11

I said, “I will never again see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living; I will no longer look on mankind with those who dwell in this world.

Isaiah 38:12

My dwelling has been picked up and removed from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver; He cuts me off from the loom; from day until night You make an end of me.

Isaiah 38:13

I composed myself until the morning. Like a lion He breaks all my bones; from day until night You make an end of me.

Ezekiel 37:11

Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Look, they are saying, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope has perished; we are cut off.’

2 Corinthians 1:8

We do not want you to be unaware, brothers, of the hardships we encountered in the province of Asia. We were under a burden far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired even of life.

2 Corinthians 1:9

Indeed, we felt we were under the sentence of death, in order that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God, who raises the dead.

2 Corinthians 1:10

He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and He will deliver us. In Him we have placed our hope that He will yet again deliver us,