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Lamentations 3

Lam. 3:54 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Waters
mayim (Hebrew #4325)
water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen
KJV usage: + piss, wasting, water(-ing, (-course, -flood, -spring)).
Pronounce: mah'-yim
Origin: dual of a primitive noun (but used in a singular sense)
s flowed over
tsuwph (Hebrew #6687)
to overflow
KJV usage: (make to over-)flow, swim.
Pronounce: tsoof
Origin: a primitive root
mine head
ro'sh (Hebrew #7218)
the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)
KJV usage: band, beginning, captain, chapiter, chief(-est place, man, things), company, end, X every (man), excellent, first, forefront, ((be-))head, height, (on) high(-est part, (priest)), X lead, X poor, principal, ruler, sum, top.
Pronounce: roshe
Origin: from an unused root apparently meaning to shake
; then I said
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
, I am cut off
gazar (Hebrew #1504)
to cut down or off; (figuratively) to destroy, divide, exclude, or decide
KJV usage: cut down (off), decree, divide, snatch.
Pronounce: gaw-zar'
Origin: a primitive root
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Jonah 2:3‑4,7• 3For thou didst cast me into the depth, into the heart of the seas, And the flood was round about me: All thy breakers and thy billows are gone over me.
 4And I said, I am cast out from before thine eyes, Yet will I look again toward thy holy temple.
 7When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Jehovah; And my prayer came in unto thee, Into thy holy temple. (Jonah 2:3‑4,7)

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Waters.
Psa. 18:4• 4The bands of death encompassed me, and torrents of Belial made me afraid. (Psa. 18:4)
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Psa. 69:1‑2,15• 1To the chief Musician. Upon Shoshannim. A Psalm of David. Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.
 2I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing; I am come into the depths of waters, and the flood overfloweth me.
 15Let not the flood of waters overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up; and let not the pit shut its mouth upon me. (Psa. 69:1‑2,15)
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Psa. 124:4‑5• 4Then the waters had overwhelmed us, a torrent had gone over our soul;
 5Then the proud waters had gone over our soul. (Psa. 124:4‑5)
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Jonah 2:3‑5• 3For thou didst cast me into the depth, into the heart of the seas, And the flood was round about me: All thy breakers and thy billows are gone over me.
 4And I said, I am cast out from before thine eyes, Yet will I look again toward thy holy temple.
 5The waters encompassed me, to the soul: The deep was round about me, The weeds were wrapped about my head. (Jonah 2:3‑5)
I said.
Lam. 3:18• 18And I said, My strength is perished, and my hope in Jehovah. (Lam. 3:18)
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Job 17:11‑16• 11My days are past, my purposes are broken off, the cherished thoughts of my heart.
 12They change the night into day; the light they imagine near in presence of the darkness.
 13If I wait, Sheol is my house; I spread my bed in the darkness:
 14I cry to the grave, Thou art my father! to the worm, My mother, and my sister!
 15And where is then my hope? yea, my hope, who shall see it?
 16It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, when our rest shall be together in the dust. (Job 17:11‑16)
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Psa. 31:22• 22As for me, I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes; nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee. (Psa. 31:22)
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Isa. 38:10‑13• 10I said, In the meridian of my days I shall go to the gates of Sheol: I am deprived of the rest of my years.
 11I said, I shall not see Jah, Jah in the land of the living. With those who dwell where all has ceased to be, I shall behold man no more.
 12Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent. I have cut off like a weaver my life. He separateth me from the thrum:--from day to night thou wilt make an end of me.
 13I kept still until the morning; … as a lion, so doth he break all my bones. From day to night thou wilt make an end of me. (Isa. 38:10‑13)
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Ezek. 37:11• 11And he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off! (Ezek. 37:11)
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2 Cor. 1:8‑10• 8For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, as to our tribulation which happened to us in Asia, that we were excessively pressed beyond our power, so as to despair even of living.
 9But we ourselves had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not have our trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead;
 10who has delivered us from so great a death, and does deliver; in whom we confide that he will also yet deliver; (2 Cor. 1:8‑10)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Waters streamed over my head; I said, I am cut off.