Lamentations 3:55
I called upon thy name, O Lord, 1 Out of the lowest dungeon. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
In Context
54Water flowed over my head: 1 I said, I am cut off. 1
56Thou heardest my voice: 1 Close not thine ears to my supplication. 1
Cross References
2 Chronicles 33:11And the Lord brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, and they took Manasseh in bonds, and bound him in fetters, and brought him to Babylon.
Psalms 40:1For the end, a Psalm of David. 1
Psalms 142:3For the enemy has persecuted my soul; 1 He has brought my life down to the ground; 1 He has made me to dwell in a dark place, as those that have been long dead. 1
Jonah 2:2And Jonah prayed to the Lord his God out of the belly of the whale,
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 →