Lamentations 3:55
I was making prayer to your name, O Lord, out of the lowest prison.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
In Context
54Waters were flowing over my head; I said, I am cut off.
56My voice came to you; let not your ear be shut to my breathing, to my cry.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 33:11So the Lord sent against them the captains of the army of Assyria, who made Manasseh a prisoner and took him away in chains to Babylon.
Psalms 40:1To the chief music-maker. Of David. A Psalm.
Psalms 116:3The nets of death were round me, and the pains of the underworld had me in their grip; I was full of trouble and sorrow.
Psalms 142:3\142:2\I put all my sorrows before him; and made clear to him all my trouble.
Jonah 2:2\2:1\Then Jonah made prayer to the Lord his God from the inside of the fish, and said,
Acts 16:24And he, having such orders, put them into the inner prison with chains on their feet.
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 →