Lamentations 3:56
in Lamentations 3You heard my plea: “Do not ignore my cry for relief.”
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Thou heardest my voice; hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.
KJV
Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.
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This verse in Lamentations 3
Commentary
3 notes on this verseHide 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.
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 record, by era
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
Thou hast heard--namely formerly (so in La 3:57, 58). breathing . . . cry--two kinds of prayer; the sigh of a prayer silently breathed forth, and the loud, earnest cry (compare "prayer," "secret speech," Isa 26:16, Margin; with "cry aloud," Ps 55:17).
The words behind it
7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| קוֹלִ֖י | koli | voice my | H6963 → | |
| שָׁמָ֑עְתָּ | shamaeta | you heard | H8085 → | 1159 times |
| אַל־ | ʾal- | may not | H408 → | 724 times |
| תַּעְלֵ֧ם | ta'lem | you hide | H5956 → | |
| אָזְנְךָ֛ | ʾazenekha | ear your | H241 → | |
| לְרַוְחָתִ֖י | leravchati | to relief my | H7309 → | |
| לְשַׁוְעָתִֽי׃ | leshavati | to cry for help my | H7775 → |
קוֹלִ֖יvoice my
koliH6963 →
שָׁמָ֑עְתָּyou heard
shamaetaH8085 →1159 times
אַל־may not
ʾal-H408 →724 times
תַּעְלֵ֧םyou hide
ta'lemH5956 →
אָזְנְךָ֛ear your
ʾazenekhaH241 →
לְרַוְחָתִ֖יto relief my
leravchatiH7309 →
לְשַׁוְעָתִֽי׃to cry for help my
leshavatiH7775 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Psalms 34:6This poor man called out, and the LORD heard him; He saved him from all his troubles.
it leads to
- Psalms 34:17–19
The righteous cry out, and the LORD hears; He delivers them from all their troubles.
- Psalms 3:4
To the LORD I cry aloud, and He answers me from His holy mountain. Selah
- Psalms 10:17
You have heard, O LORD, the desire of the humble; You will strengthen their hearts. You will incline Your ear,
- Psalms 66:16–20
Come and listen, all you who fear God, and I will declare what He has done for me.
- Psalms 40:17
But I am poor and needy; may the Lord think of me. You are my helper and deliverer; O my God, do not delay.
- Psalms 34:17–19
Through
Isaiah 38:5“Go and tell Hezekiah that this is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to…
it leads to
- 1 John 5:14–15
And this is the confidence that we have before Him: If we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.
- Psalms 34:5–6
Those who look to Him are radiant with joy; their faces shall never be ashamed.
- 1 John 5:14–15
Through
Psalms 55:1Listen to my prayer, O God, and do not ignore my plea.
it leads to
- 1 Peter 3:12
For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and His ears are inclined to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”
- 1 Peter 3:12
Where this verse is studied
About Lamentations
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Carl Friedrich Keil, Lamentations; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.