Lamentations 3:53 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁵³ they flung me alive into a pit and hurled stones on me;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵³ They have cut off my life in the dungeon, And cast a stone upon me.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵³ They [thought they had] destroyed my life in the dungeon (pit) and cast a stone [over it] above me. [Jer. 38.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵³ They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone upon me.

Common English Bible

⁵³ They caught me alive in a pit and threw stones at me;

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵³ SADE. My life has fallen into a pit, and they have placed a stone over me.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵³ Sade. My life is fallen into the pit, and they have laid a stone over me.

Lamentations 3:53 Cross References

Jeremiah 37:16

Thus Jeremiah was put in the cistern house, in the cells, and remained there many days.

Jeremiah 37:20

Now please hear me, my lord king: be good enough to listen to my plea, and do not send me back to the house of the secretary Jonathan to die there.”

Jeremiah 38:6

So they took Jeremiah and threw him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son, which was in the court of the guard, letting Jeremiah down by ropes. Now there was no water in the cistern but only mud, and Jeremiah sank in the mud.

Jeremiah 38:9

“My lord king, these men have acted wickedly in all they did to the prophet Jeremiah by throwing him into the cistern to die there of hunger, for there is no bread left in the city.”

Daniel 6:17

A stone was brought and laid on the mouth of the den, and the king sealed it with his own signet ring and with the signet ring of his lords, so that nothing might be changed concerning Daniel.

Daniel 6:18

Then the king went to his palace and spent the night fasting; no entertainment was brought to him, and sleep fled from him.

Jonah 2:1

Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the belly of the fish,

Matthew 27:60

and laid it in his new tomb, which he had hewn in the rock. He then rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb and went away.

Matthew 27:66

So they went with the guard and made the tomb secure by sealing the stone.