Berean Standard Bible
Lamentations 3:56
56You heard my plea: “Do not ignore my cry for relief.”
Lamentations 3:56 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.
- New International Version (NIV)You heard my plea: “Do not close your ears to my cry for relief.”
- English Standard Version (ESV)you heard my plea, 'Do not close your ear to my cry for help!'
- New King James Version (NKJV)You have heard my voice: “Do not hide Your ear From my sighing, from my cry for help.”
Context of Lamentations 3:56
54The waters flowed over my head, and I thought I was going to die. 55I called on Your name, O LORD, out of the depths of the Pit. You heard my plea: “Do not ignore my cry for relief.” 57You drew near when I called on You; You said, “Do not be afraid.” 58You defend my cause, O Lord; You redeem my life.
Read all of Lamentations 3Lamentations 3:56 word by word
קוֹלִ֖י שָׁמָ֑עְתָּ אַל־תַּעְלֵ֧ם אָזְנְךָ֛ לְרַוְחָתִ֖י לְשַׁוְעָתִֽי׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Lamentations 3:56
- 2 Chronicles 33:13And when he prayed to Him, the LORD received his plea and heard his petition. So He brought him back to Jerusalem and to his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD is God.
- Job 34:28They caused the cry of the poor to come before Him, and He heard the outcry of the afflicted.
- Psalms 3:4To the LORD I cry aloud, and He answers me from His holy mountain. Selah
- Psalms 6:8Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for the LORD has heard my weeping.
- Psalms 34:6This poor man called out, and the LORD heard him; He saved him from all his troubles.
- Psalms 66:19But God has surely heard; He has attended to the sound of my prayer.
- Psalms 116:1I love the LORD, for He has heard my voice— my appeal for mercy.
- Isaiah 38:5“Go and tell Hezekiah that this is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.
- Psalms 55:1Listen to my prayer, O God, and do not ignore my plea.
- Psalms 88:13But to You, O LORD, I cry for help; in the morning my prayer comes before You.
- Romans 8:26In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know how we ought to pray, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groans too deep for words.
Commentaries on Lamentations 3:56
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 56Hide not thine ear at my breathing - He dared not even to complain, nor to cry, nor to pray aloud: he was obliged to whisper his prayer to God. It was only a breathing.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 55-66Verses 55-66 A prayer for deliverance and for vengeance upon his enemies. Lamentations 3:55 Out of the low dungeon - “The lowest pit” of Psalm 88:6. Some consider that Jeremiah 38:6 note). Lamentations 3:56 Thou hast heard - In sending Ebedmelech to deliver me. The next clause signifies “Hide not thine ear to my relief to my cry,” i. e. to my cry for relief. Lamentations 3:58 God now appears as the prophet‘s next of kin, pleading the lawsuits of his soul…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 55-66Verses 55-66 Faith comes off conqueror, for in these verses the prophet concludes with some comfort. Prayer is the breath of the new man, drawing in the air of mercy in petitions, and returning it in praises; it proves and maintains the spiritual life. He silenced their fears, and quieted their spirits. Thou saidst, Fear not. This was the language of God's grace, by the witness of his Spirit with their spirits. And what are all our sorrows, compared with…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 52-57This passage might refer to Jeremiah’s experience in the cistern (Jeremiah 37:11–15; 38:1–13).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 55-5755-57. I called out of dungeon--Thus the spirit resists the flesh, and faith spurns the temptation [Calvin], (Psa 130:1; Jon 2:2).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Lamentations 3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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