Lamentations 3:55
Coph. I have called upon thy name, O Lord, from the lowest pit.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
In Context
54Sade. Waters have flowed over my head: I said: I am cut off.
56Coph. Thou hast heard my voice: turn not away thy ear from my sighs, and cries.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 33:11Therefore he brought upon them the captains of the army of the king of the Assyrians: and they took Manasses, and carried him bound with chains and fetters to Babylon.
Psalms 40:1Unto the end, a psalm for David himself.
Psalms 116:3dummy verses inserted by amos
Psalms 142:3Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth: and a door round about my lips.
Jonah 2:2And Jonas prayed to the Lord his God out of the belly of the fish.
Acts 16:24Who having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast 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 →