Revised Literal Translation
Lamentations 3:56
56Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.
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
54Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off. 55I called upon thy name, O Yhwh, out of the low dungeon. Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry. 57Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not. 58O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed 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 prayed unto him: and he was intreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that Yhwh he was God.
- Job 34:28So that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto him, and he heareth the cry of the afflicted.
- Psalms 3:4I cried unto Yhwh with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah.
- Psalms 6:8Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for Yhwh hath heard the voice of my weeping.
- Psalms 34:6This poor man cried, And Yhwh heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
- Psalms 66:19But verily God hath heard me; he hath attended to the voice of my prayer.
- Psalms 116:1I love Yhwh, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications.
- Isaiah 38:5Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith Yhwh, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years.
- Psalms 55:1Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication.
- Psalms 88:13But unto thee have I cried, O Yhwh; and in the morning shall my prayer come before thee.
- Romans 8:26Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit himself maketh 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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