Lamentations 3:55
I called upon Thy Shem, Hashem, 1 out of the lowest pit. 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
In Context
54Mayim flowed over mine rosh; 1 then I said: I am cut off. 1
56Thou hast heard my voice; 1 close not thine ear at my sighing, 1 at my cry. 1
Cross References
2 Chronicles 33:11Therefore Hashem brought upon them the sarei hatzavah of Melech Ashur (Assyria), which captured Menasheh with a hunterʼs hooks, and bound him with bronze shackles, and hauled him off to Babylon.
Psalms 40:1(For the one directing, Of Dovid. Mizmor) 1
Psalms 116:3Chevlei mavet (pangs of death) encompassed me, 1 and the metzarei She'ol (confines, straitnesses of She'ol) have caught up with me and found me; 1 tzoros and yagon (sorrow) I found. 1
Psalms 142:3I poured out my complaint before Him; 1 I showed before Him my tzoros. 1
Jonah 2:2Then Yonah davened unto Hashem Elohav from out of the dagʼs belly,
Acts 16:24And the soher, having received such an order, threw them into the inner beis hasohar, and he fastened their feet in the stock. + 16:24 Job 13:27; 33:11; Jer 20:2,3; 29:26
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 →