Lamentations 3:55
I called out for you, Lord, from deep inside the pit.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
In Context
54Water flooded over my head, and I thought I was going to die.
56You heard me when I prayed, “Please don't ignore my cry for help.”
Cross References
2 Chronicles 33:11So the Lord sent the armies of Assyria with their commanders to attack them. The Assyrians captured Manasseh, put a hook through his nose, put bronze shackles on him, and took him away to Babylon.
Psalms 40:1I waited for the Lord patiently, and he turned to me—he heard my cry for help.
Psalms 116:3I was caught in the snares of death; I was trapped by terrors of the grave. All I experienced was suffering and grief.
Psalms 142:3When I'm totally discouraged, you know the direction I should take. But whichever way I go, people set traps for me.
Jonah 2:2He began, “In my agony I cried out to the Lord and he answered me; from the depths of Sheol I pleaded for help and you answered me.
Acts 16:24The jailer followed his orders. He threw Paul and Silas into the inner cell and shackled 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 →