Lamentations 3:54

The waters closed over my head; I thought ¹  I was about to die. ² 

Job 17:11-16; Ps 18:4; Ps 31:22; Ps 69:1,2,15; Ps 124:4,5; Isa 38:10-13; La 3:18; Eze 37:11; Jon 2:3-5; 2Co 1:8-10

¹ tn Heb “I said,” meaning “I said to myself” = “I thought.”

² tn Heb “I was about to be cut off.” The verb נִגְזָרְתִּי (nigzarti), Niphal perfect 1st person common singular from גָּזַר (gazar, “to be cut off”), functions in an ingressive sense: “about to be cut off.” It is used in reference to the threat of death (e.g., Ezek 37:11). To be “cut off” from the hand of the living means to experience death (Ps 88:6).