Lamentations 3:55
I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the lowest dungeon.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
In Context
54Waters flowed over my head. I said, I am cut off.
56Thou heard my voice. Hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 33:11Therefore LORD brought upon them the captains of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh in chains, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
Psalms 40:1I waited patiently for LORD, and he inclined to me, and heard my cry.
Psalms 116:3The cords of death encompassed me, and the pains of Sheol got hold upon me. I found trouble and sorrow.
Psalms 142:3When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, thou knew my path. In the way in which I walk they have hidden a snare for me.
Jonah 2:2And he said, I called because of my affliction to LORD, and he answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried, [and] thou heard my voice.
Acts 16:24who, having received such an order, threw them into the inner prison, and fastened their feet in the stocks.
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 3:43-55
Complaining to God. ( b. c. 588.) 42 We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned. 43 Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied. 44 Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through. 45 Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people. 46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us. 47 Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction. 48 Mine eye runneth down with rivers of… Read the whole commentary →