John Gill, on Lam 3:53

“Sade. My life is fallen into the pit, and they have laid a stone over me.”

“O Lord, thou hast pleaded the cause of my soul,.... Or, causes of "my soul", or "life" (u); such as concerned his soul and life: not one only, but many of them; and this respects not Jeremiah only, and the Lord's pleading his cause against Zedekiah and his nobles; but the people of the Jews in former times, when in Egypt, and in the times of the judges: thou hast redeemed my life; by delivering out of the pit and dungeon, where it was in danger; and not only him, but the whole body of the people of old out of Egypt, and out of the hands of their enemies, the Philistines and others. (u) "causas animaa meae", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.