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Lamentations 3:56
56You heard my voice, “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.
- 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 my head. I said, “I have been cut off!” 55I called on Your Name, Adonai, from the depths of the Pit. You heard my voice, “Do not close Your ears to my cry for relief.” 57You drew near on the day I called to You. You said, “Do not fear!” 58Lord, You pled my soul’s 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
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Lamentations 3:56
- 2 Chronicles 33:13When he prayed to Him, He was moved by his entreaty, heard his plea and brought him back to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that Adonai, He is God.
- Job 34:28They caused the cry of the poor to come before Him, so that He hears the cry of the afflicted.
- Psalms 3:4But You, Adonai, are a shield around me, my glory and the lifter of my head.
- Psalms 6:8My eyes are weakened with grief— they age because of my enemies.
- Psalms 34:6They who looked to Him were radiant, and their faces will never be ashamed.
- Psalms 66:19But surely God has heard. He has listened to my voice in prayer.
- Psalms 116:1I love Adonai, for He hears my voice, my cries.
- Isaiah 38:5“Go, and say to Hezekiah, thus says Adonai, the God of your father David: ‘I have heard your prayer and I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add 15 years to your life.
- Psalms 55:1For the music director, on stringed instruments, a contemplative song of David.
- Psalms 88:13Will Your wonders be known in the darkness? Your righteousness in the land of oblivion?
- Romans 8:26In the same way, the Ruach helps in our weakness. For we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Ruach 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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