Lamentations 3:54
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Waters flowed over my head; I said, I am cut off.
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Get a full Reformed explanation of this passageJerusalem, Judah’s covenant capital and the site of the temple, lies behind the lament’s imagery of overwhelming waters and the pit. Its destruction by Babylon in 586 BC made the speaker’s personal anguish a fitting expression of the city’s and people’s judgment and devastation.
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Lamentations 3:54 mentions Jerusalem.
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