God’s Word Translation
Lamentations 3:56
56Listen to my cry ⌞for help⌟. Don’t close your ears when I cry out 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
54Water flowed over my head. I thought I was finished. 55“I call your name from the deepest pit, O Lord. Listen to my cry ⌞for help⌟. Don’t close your ears when I cry out for relief. 57Be close at hand when I call to you. You told me not to be afraid. 58Plead my case for me, O Lord. Reclaim my life.
Read all of Lamentations 3Lamentations 3:56 word by word
קוֹלִ֖י שָׁמָ֑עְתָּ אַל־תַּעְלֵ֧ם אָזְנְךָ֛ לְרַוְחָתִ֖י לְשַׁוְעָתִֽי׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Lamentations 3:56
- 2 Chronicles 33:13He prayed to the Lord, and the Lord accepted his prayer and listened to his request. The Lord brought him back to his kingdom in Jerusalem. Then Manasseh knew that the Lord is God.
- Job 34:28They forced the poor to cry out to him, and he hears the cry of those who suffer.
- Psalms 3:4I call aloud to the Lord, and he answers me from his holy mountain. Selah
- Psalms 6:8Get away from me, all you troublemakers, because the Lord has heard the sound of my crying.
- Psalms 34:6Here is a poor man who called out. The Lord heard him and saved him from all his troubles.
- Psalms 66:19But God has heard me. He has paid attention to my prayer.
- Psalms 116:1I love the Lord because he hears my voice, my pleas for mercy.
- Isaiah 38:5“Go and say to Hezekiah, ‘This is what the Lord God of your ancestor David says: I’ve heard your prayer. I’ve seen your tears. I’m going to give you 15 more years to live.
- Psalms 55:1Open your ears to my prayer, O God. Do not hide from my plea for mercy.
- Psalms 88:13I cry out to you for help, O Lord, and in the morning my prayer will come into your presence.
- Romans 8:26At the same time the Spirit also helps us in our weakness, because we don’t know how to pray for what we need. But the Spirit intercedes along with our groans that cannot be expressed in 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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