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Lamentations 3:54

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3:54The waters closed over my head;

I thought112 I was about to die.113

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Footnotes

  1. 112 Heb “I said,” meaning “I said to myself” = “I thought.”
  2. 113 Heb “I was about to be cut off.” The verb נִגְזָרְתִּי (nigzarti), Niphal perfect 1st 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). To be “cut off” from the hand of the living means to experience death (Ps 88:6).

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

water closed over my head;

I said, ‘I am lost.’

NIVNew International Version (2011)

the waters closed over my head,

and I thought I was about to perish.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Water flooded over my head,

and I thought, “I’m going to die!”

NLTNew Living Translation

The water rose over my head,

and I cried out, “This is the end!”

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Water has flown over my head,

I said, “I am cut off.”

KJV 1900King James Version

Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.