Lamentations 3:55
in Lamentations 3I called on Your name, O LORD, out of the depths of the Pit.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
I called upon thy name, O Jehovah, out of the lowest dungeon.
KJV
I called upon thy name, O Lord, out of the low dungeon.
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This verse in Lamentations 3
Commentary
2 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
A prayer for deliverance and for vengeance upon his enemies. Lam 3:55 Out of the low dungeon - “The lowest pit” of Psa 88:6. Some consider that Ps. 69 was composed by Jeremiah, and is the prayer referred to here (Jer 38:6 note). Lam 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.
This site's exposition
I called upon thy name, O Lord, out of the low dungeon
on Lamentations 3:55-58
I called upon thy name, O Lord, out of the low dungeon answers the drowning language of the verse before it with prayer, the pit itself becoming the place the cry was made from rather than only the place of despair. Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry and thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not record an answered prayer in the plainest terms the chapter uses, the Lord's own words quoted back. O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life closes the narrative with deliverance already accomplished, the man's own rescue placed before the imprecation that follows it, testimony given before the plea for judgment on his enemies.
The words behind it
5 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| קָרָ֤אתִי | karati | I called | H7121 → | 733 times |
| שִׁמְךָ֙ | shimkha | name your | H8034 → | |
| יְהוָ֔ה | yahweh | O Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| מִבּ֖וֹר | mibor | from a pit of | H953 → | |
| תַּחְתִּיּֽוֹת׃ | tachtiyot | lowest parts | H8482 → |
קָרָ֤אתִיI called
karatiH7121 →733 times
שִׁמְךָ֙name your
shimkhaH8034 →
יְהוָ֔הO Yahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
מִבּ֖וֹרfrom a pit of
miborH953 →
תַּחְתִּיּֽוֹת׃lowest parts
tachtiyotH8482 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
Where this verse is studied
About Lamentations
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Carl Friedrich Keil, Lamentations and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.