New King James Version
Lamentations 3:56
56You have heard my voice: “Do not hide Your ear From my sighing, from my cry for help.”
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 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 flowed over my head; I said, “I am cut off!” 55I called on Your name, O Lord, From the lowest pit. You have heard my voice: “Do not hide Your ear From my sighing, from my cry for help.” 57You drew near on the day I called on You, And said, “Do not fear!” 58O Lord, You have pleaded the case for my soul; You have 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 prayed to Him; and He received his entreaty, heard his supplication, and brought him back to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the Lord was God.
- Job 34:28So that they caused the cry of the poor to come to Him; For He hears the cry of the afflicted.
- Psalms 3:4I cried to the Lord with my voice, And He heard me from His holy hill. Selah
- Psalms 6:8Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity; For the Lord has heard the voice of my weeping.
- Psalms 34:6This poor man cried out, and the Lord heard him, And saved him out of all his troubles.
- Psalms 66:19But certainly God has heard me; He has attended to the voice of my prayer.
- Psalms 116:1I love the Lord, because He has heard My voice and my supplications.
- Isaiah 38:5“Go and tell Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the Lord, the God of David your father: “I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; surely I will add to your days fifteen years.
- Psalms 55:1Give ear to my prayer, O God, And do not hide Yourself from my supplication.
- Psalms 88:13But to You I have cried out, O Lord, And in the morning my prayer comes before You.
- Romans 8:26Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
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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