Lamentations 3:55
I called upon Thy name, O LORD, Out of the lowest dungeon.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
In Context
54Waters flowed over my head; I said: 'I am cut off.'
56Thou heardest my voice; hide not Thine ear at my sighing, at my cry.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 33:11Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh with hooks, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
Psalms 40:1(40-1) For the Leader. A Psalm of David. (40-2) I waited patiently for the LORD; and He inclined unto me, and heard my cry.
Psalms 116:3The cords of death compassed me, and the straits of the nether-world got hold upon me; I found trouble and sorrow.
Psalms 142:3(142-4) When my spirit fainteth within me — Thou knowest my path — in the way wherein I walk have they hidden a snare for me.
Jonah 2:2(2-3) And he said: I called out of mine affliction unto the LORD, and He answered me; out of the belly of the nether-world cried I, and Thou heardest my voice.
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 →