Lamentations 3:53 (DRB)

Passage

Sade. My life is fallen into the pit, and they have laid a stone over me.

Nearby Context

Lamentations 3:51 Ain. My eye hath wasted my soul because of all the daughters of my city.

Lamentations 3:52 Sade. My enemies have chased me and caught me like a bird, without cause.

Lamentations 3:53 Sade. My life is fallen into the pit, and they have laid a stone over me.

Lamentations 3:54 Sade. Waters have flowed over my head: I said: I am cut off.

Lamentations 3:55 Coph. I have called upon thy name, O Lord, from the lowest pit.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "sade", "life", "fallen", "laid", "stone", and "over". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "sade" and "life", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 52's "Sade My enemies have chased me and..." into verse 54's "Sade Waters have flowed over my head...", so "sade" and "life" belong inside that flow. In Lamentations context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "sade" and "life" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.