Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.
Lamentations 3 is arranged as a Hebrew alphabet acrostic in which each Hebrew letter begins three successive verses and the sequence runs through all twenty-two letters. That carefully ordered form is notable within a book marked by deep anguish. The verse voices overwhelming distress and the feeling of being cut off, like someone submerged by waters rising over the head. That awful sense of separation and despair can accompany a time of judgment.
Lamentations 3 is arranged as a Hebrew alphabet acrostic in which each Hebrew letter begins three successive verses and the sequence runs through all twenty-two letters. That carefully ordered form is notable within a book marked by deep anguish. The verse voices overwhelming distress and the feeling of being cut off, like someone submerged by waters rising over the head. That awful sense of separation and despair can accompany a time of judgment.