Cross references

Lamentations 3:53

They dropped me alive into a pit

and cast stones upon me.

Lamentations 3:53 BSB

Lamentations 3:53 has 7 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 3 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Jeremiah 38:6 (4 votes) and Jeremiah 38:9 (4 votes). 17 other verses point back to it. It links with 12 other books, from Genesis 37 to Hebrews 11.

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Which verses does Lamentations 3:53 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. So 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.

  2. “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.”

  3. A 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.

  4. So Jeremiah went into a cell in the dungeon and remained there a long time.

  5. But 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.”

  6. and 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.

  7. So they went and secured the tomb by sealing the stone and posting the guard.

Which verses point to Lamentations 3:53?

The 10 strongest of 17.