Holy Scripture
Lamentations 3:54
A church father on this verse
“Third, the very imprisonment of those imprisoned is exposed: "Water closed over my head; I said, 'I am lost'." Namely, the waters of tribulations are multiplied. Again: "I said, 'I am lost'." That is, desperately and impatiently. As the prophet Jonah reports: "All thy waves and thy billows passed over me" (Jonah 2:3).”
Source: Septuagint
Original
54Water flowed over my head: I said, I am cut off.
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In context
52The fowlers chased me as a sparrow, All mine enemies destroyed my life in a pit without cause,
53And laid a stone upon me.
— Lamentations 3:54 —
55I called upon thy name, O Lord, Out of the lowest dungeon.
56Thou heardest my voice: Close not thine ears to my supplication.