Lamentations 3:53

God's Word

They threw me alive into a pit and threw rocks at me.

Cross References

Jeremiah 37:16

Jeremiah went into a prison cell, and he stayed there a long time.

Jeremiah 37:20

But now, Your Majesty, please listen, and accept my plea for mercy. Don’t return me to the scribe Jonathan’s house, or I will die there.”

Jeremiah 38:6

So they took Jeremiah and threw him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son. It was in the courtyard of the prison. They used ropes to lower Jeremiah into the cistern. There was no water in the cistern, only mud, and Jeremiah sank in the mud.

Jeremiah 38:9

“Your Majesty, everything that these men have done to the prophet Jeremiah is wrong. They have thrown him into the cistern, where he’ll starve to death, because there’s no more bread in the city.”

Daniel 6:17

A stone was brought and placed over the opening of the den. The king put his seal on the stone, using his ring and the rings of his nobles, so that Daniel’s situation could not be changed.

Daniel 6:18

Then the king went to his palace and spent the night without food or company. He couldn’t get to sleep.

Jonah 2:1

From inside the fish Jonah prayed to the Lord his God.

Matthew 27:60

Then he laid it in his own new tomb, which had been cut in a rock. After rolling a large stone against the door of the tomb, he went away.

Matthew 27:66

So they went to secure the tomb. They placed a seal on the stone and posted the soldiers on guard duty.