Matthew Poole and continuators on Lamentations 3:53

53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me .

Dungeon seemeth not to be here taken literally for the lowest and nastiest place in Prisons, which probably was the portion but of a few of the Iewes; but metaphorically for the lowest and saddest condition of misery. Their Enemies had brought them into the deepest Miseries to the cutting off of their lives, and as men use to roll great stones upon the mouthes of Dens and Pits, where they have shut up Persons to make them sure from escaping out, so their Enemies had dealt with them, doing what [illegible: 1 letter]ay in them to make their condition remediless and desperate.