Lamentations 3:53 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁵³ they flung me alive into the pit and cast 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

When Jeremiah had come to the dungeon cells, and remained there many days,

Jeremiah 37:20

Now hear, I pray you, O my lord the king: let my humble plea come before you, and do not send me back to the house of Jonathan the secretary, lest I die there.”

Jeremiah 38:6

So they took Jeremiah and cast him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king's son, which was in the court of the guard, letting Jeremiah down by ropes. And there was no water in the cistern, but only mire, and Jeremiah sank in the mire.

Jeremiah 38:9

“My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they did to Jeremiah the prophet by casting him into the cistern; and he will die there of hunger, for there is no bread left in the city.”

Daniel 6:17

And a stone was brought and laid upon the mouth of the den, and the king sealed it with his own signet and with the signet of his lords, that nothing might be changed concerning Daniel.

Daniel 6:18

Then the king went to his palace, and spent the night fasting; no diversions were 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 own new tomb, which he had hewn in the rock; and he rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb, and departed.

Matthew 27:66

So they went and made the sepulchre secure by sealing the stone and setting a guard.