Lamentations 3:54 (GNV)

Passage

Waters flowed ouer mine head, then thought I, I am destroyed.

Nearby Context

Lamentations 3:52 Mine enemies chased me sore like a birde, without cause.

Lamentations 3:53 They haue shut vp my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone vpon me.

Lamentations 3:54 Waters flowed ouer mine head, then thought I, I am destroyed.

Lamentations 3:55 I called vpon thy Name, O Lord, out of the lowe dungeon.

Lamentations 3:56 Thou hast heard my voyce: stoppe not thine eare from my sigh and from my cry.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "waters", "flowed", "ouer", "mine", "head", "thought", and "destroyed". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "waters" and "flowed", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 53's "They haue shut vp my life in..." into verse 55's "I called vpon thy Name O Lord...", so "waters" and "flowed" 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 "waters" and "flowed" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.