Lamentations 3:56
You have heard my voice, do not hide Your ear at my breathing—at my cry.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.
In Context
55I called Your Name, O YHWH, from the lower pit.
57You have drawn near in the day I call You, You have said, Do not fear.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 33:19and his prayer, and his plea, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places in which he had built high places, and established the Asherim and the carved images before his being humbled, behold, they are written beside the matters of Hozai.
Psalms 3:4My voice [is] to YHWH: I call and He answers me from His holy hill, Selah.
Psalms 5:3YHWH, [in] the morning You hear my voice, || [In] the morning I set in array for You, || And I look out [expectantly].
Psalms 6:9YHWH has heard my supplication, || YHWH receives my prayer.
Psalms 55:1TO THE OVERSEER. WITH STRINGED INSTRUMENTS. AN INSTRUCTION OF DAVID. Give ear, O God, [to] my prayer, || And do not hide from my supplication.
Psalms 55:18He has ransomed my soul in peace || From him who is near to me, || For with the multitude they were with me.
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 →