Parallel Verses
Amplified
They silenced me in the pit
And placed a stone over me.
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.
International Standard Version
They dumped me alive into a pit, sealing me in with stone.
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.
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
Without cause my enemies
Hunted me down like a bird;
They silenced me in the pit
And placed a stone over me.
The waters ran down on my head;
I said, “I am cut off (destroyed)!”
Cross References
Jeremiah 38:6
So they took Jeremiah and threw him into the
Jeremiah 38:9
“My lord the king, these men have acted wickedly in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet whom they have thrown into the cistern; and he will die [of hunger] where he is because of the famine, for there is no more bread in the city.”
Daniel 6:17
A stone was brought and laid over the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his own signet ring and with the signet rings of his nobles, so that nothing would be changed concerning Daniel.
Jeremiah 37:16
When Jeremiah had come into
Jeremiah 37:20
Therefore now, please listen, O my lord the king; please let my petition come before you and be acceptable and do not make me return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, that I may not die there.”
Matthew 27:60
and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had cut in the rock; and he rolled a large stone over the entrance of the tomb and went away.
Matthew 27:66
So they went and