They dropped me alive into a pit and cast stones upon me.
Parallel translations
- WEB They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone on me.
- KJV They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
- NKJV They silenced my life in the pit And threw stones at me.
- NASB They have silenced me in the pit And have thrown stones on me.
- NLT They threw me into a pit and dropped stones on me.
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Quick answer
His enemies have tried to end his life, casting him into a pit and a stone upon him.
Overview
The imagery of being cut off in a dungeon with a stone cast over recalls extreme distress, as in Jeremiah's own imprisonment in a cistern (Jer. 38:6). It pictures life sealed off as if in a grave. Such descent into a pit and the hope of deliverance foreshadow the burial and resurrection of Christ (Ps. 88:6).
Cross-references & the web
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- Dan 6:17A stone was brought and placed over the mouth of the den, and the king sealed it with his own signet ring and with the rings of his nobles, so that nothing concerning Daniel could be changed.
- Jer 38:9“My lord the king, these men have acted wickedly in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet. They have dropped him into the cistern, where he will starve to death, for there is no more bread in the city.”
- Jer 38:6So they took Jeremiah and dropped him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son, which was in the courtyard of the guard. They lowered Jeremiah with ropes into the cistern, which had no water but only mud, and Jeremiah sank down into the mud.
- Jer 37:16So Jeremiah went into a cell in the dungeon and remained there a long time.
- Matt 27:66So they went and secured the tomb by sealing the stone and posting the guard.
- Jer 37:20But now please listen, O my lord the king. May my petition come before you. Do not send me back to the house of Jonathan the scribe, or I will die there.”
- Matt 27:60and placed it in his own new tomb that he had cut into the rock. Then he rolled a great stone across the entrance to the tomb and went away.
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