“The affliction into which people fall is now evaluated. First, the people's captivity itself is reckoned: "I have been hunted like a bird." That is, as if by cunning enemies, operating with powers. Second, the imprisonment of the captives is explained: "They flung me alive into the pit." That is, my life into a prison…”
Thomas Aquinas, 13th c. — Commentary on Lamentations
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53They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
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51Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.
52Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
— Lamentations 3:53 —
54Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.
55I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.