Lamentations 3:55
I called Your Name, O YHWH, from the lower pit.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
In Context
54Waters have flowed over my head, I have said, I have been cut off.
56You have heard my voice, do not hide Your ear at my breathing—at my cry.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 33:11and YHWH brings in against them the heads of the host that the king of Asshur has, and they capture Manasseh among the thickets, and bind him with bronze chains, and cause him to go to Babylon.
Psalms 40:1TO THE OVERSEER. A PSALM OF DAVID. I have diligently expected YHWH, || And He inclines to me, and hears my cry,
Psalms 116:3Cords of death have surrounded me, || And straits of Sheol have found me, || I find distress and sorrow.
Psalms 142:3When my spirit has been feeble in me, || Then You have known my path; In the way [in] which I walk, || They have hid a snare for me.
Jonah 2:2And he says: “I called, because of my distress, to YHWH, || And He answers me, || From the belly of Sheol I have cried, || You have heard my voice.
Acts 16:24who having received such a charge, put them into the inner prison, and fastened 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 →