Lamentations 3:56
COPH. You have heard my voice. Do not turn away your ear from my sobbing and my cries.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.
In Context
55COPH. I called upon your name, O Lord, from the furthest pit.
57COPH. You drew near in the daytime, when I called upon you. You said, “Fear not.”
Cross References
2 Chronicles 33:19Also, his prayer and its heeding, and all his sins and contempt, and the sites on which he built high places and made sacred groves and statues, before he repented, have been written in the words of Hozai.
Psalms 3:4But you, Lord, are my supporter, my glory, and the one who raises up my head.
Psalms 5:3Attend to the voice of my prayer, my King and my God.
Psalms 6:9Scatter before me, all you who work iniquity, for the Lord has heard the voice of my weeping.
Psalms 55:1Unto the end. For the people who have become far removed from the Sacred. Of David, with the inscription of a title, when the Philistines held him in Gath.
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 3:56-66
God's Goodness Acknowledged; An Appeal to God. ( b. c. 588.) 55 I called upon thy name, O Lord , out of the low dungeon. 56 Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry. 57 Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not. 58 O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life. 59 O Lord , thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause. 60 Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me. 61 Thou hast heard their… Read the whole commentary →