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Lamentations 3:56
56You heard my plea: “Do not close your ears to 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.
- 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.”
- New Living Translation (NLT)You heard me when I cried, “Listen to my pleading! Hear my cry for help!”
Context of Lamentations 3:56
54the waters closed over my head, and I thought I was about to perish. 55I called on your name, Lord, from the depths of the pit. You heard my plea: “Do not close your ears to my cry for relief.” 57You came near when I called you, and you said, “Do not fear.” 58You, Lord, took up my case; you redeemed my life.
Read all of Lamentations 3Lamentations 3:56 word by word
קוֹלִ֖י שָׁמָ֑עְתָּ אַל־תַּעְלֵ֧ם אָזְנְךָ֛ לְרַוְחָתִ֖י לְשַׁוְעָתִֽי׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Lamentations 3:56
- 2 Chronicles 33:13And when he prayed to him, the Lord was moved by his entreaty and listened to his plea; 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, so that he heard the cry of the needy.
- Psalms 3:4I call out to the Lord, and he answers me from his holy mountain.
- Psalms 6:8Away from me, all you who do evil, for the Lord has heard my weeping.
- Psalms 34:6This poor man called, and the Lord heard him; he saved him out of all his troubles.
- Psalms 66:19but God has surely listened and has heard my prayer.
- Psalms 116:1I love the Lord, for he heard my voice; he heard my cry for mercy.
- Isaiah 38:5“Go and tell Hezekiah, ‘This is what the Lord, the God of your father David, says: I have heard your prayer and seen your tears; I will add fifteen years to your life.
- Psalms 55:1Listen to my prayer, O God, do not ignore my plea;
- Psalms 88:13But I cry to you for help, Lord; in the morning my prayer comes before you.
- Romans 8:26In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans.
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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