Lamentations 3:55
COPH. I called upon your name, O Lord, from the furthest pit.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
In Context
54SADE. The waters have flooded over my head. I said, “I am lost.”
56COPH. You have heard my voice. Do not turn away your ear from my sobbing and my cries.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 33:11Therefore, he led over them the leaders of the army of the king of the Assyrians. And they captured Manasseh, and they led him, bound with chains and fetters, to Babylon.
Psalms 40:1Unto the end. A Psalm of David himself.
Psalms 142:3For the enemy has pursued my soul. He has lowered my life to the earth. He has stationed me in darkness, like the dead of ages past.
Jonah 2:2And Jonah prayed to the Lord, his God, from the belly of the fish.
Acts 16:24And since he had received this kind of order, he cast them into the interior prison cell, and he restricted their feet with 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 →