“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).”
Thomas Aquinas, 13th c. — Commentary on Lamentations
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54Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.
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52Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
53They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
— Lamentations 3:54 —
55I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
56Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.