Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
They dumped me alive into a pit, sealing me in with stone.
New American Standard Bible
And have
King James Version
They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
Holman Bible
and threw stones at me.
A Conservative Version
They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone upon me.
American Standard Version
They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone upon me.
Amplified
They silenced me in the pit
And placed a stone over me.
Bible in Basic English
They have put an end to my life in the prison, stoning me with stones.
Darby Translation
They have cut off my life in a pit, and cast a stone upon me.
Julia Smith Translation
They cut off my life in the pit, and cast a stone upon me.
King James 2000
They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
Lexham Expanded Bible
{They have silenced me in a pit}, they have thrown a stone at me.
Modern King James verseion
They have cut off my life in the pit, and cast a stone at me.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
They have put down my life into a pit, and laid a stone upon me.
NET Bible
They shut me up in a pit and threw stones at me.
New Heart English Bible
They have cut off my life in a pit, and have cast a stone on me.
The Emphasized Bible
They have cut off, in the dungeon, my life, and have cast a stone upon me;
Webster
They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
World English Bible
They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone on me.
Youngs Literal Translation
They have cut off in a pit my life, And they cast a stone against me.
Interlinear
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References
Morish
Word Count of 20 Translations in Lamentations 3:53
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel's Affliction
52 My enemies hunted me like a bird, viciously and without justification. 53 They dumped me alive into a pit, sealing me in with stone. 54 Water closed over my head, and I said, "I'm a dead man."
Cross References
Jeremiah 38:6
So they threw Jeremiah into a cistern that belonged to the king's son Malchijah and was located in the courtyard of the guard. When they let Jeremiah down with ropes, because there was no water in the cistern only mud Jeremiah sank into the mud.
Jeremiah 38:9
"Your majesty, these men have acted wickedly in all they have done to the prophet Jeremiah by throwing him into the cistern. He will die where he is because of the famine since there is no more bread in the city."
Daniel 6:17
A stone was brought and placed over the opening to the pit, and the king affixed a seal to it with his personal signet ring and with the signet rings of his officials so that no one would interfere with Daniel's situation.
Jeremiah 37:16
So Jeremiah came into the cells in the dungeon and remained there for a long time.
Jeremiah 37:20
Now, please listen, your majesty, and pay attention to what I'm asking you. Don't make me go back to the house of Jonathan the scribe, so I don't die there."
Matthew 27:60
Then he placed it in his own new tomb, which he had cut out of the rock. After rolling a large stone across the door of the tomb, he left,
Matthew 27:66
So they went and secured the tomb by putting a seal on the stone in the presence of the guards.