Lamentations 3:56
You heard my voice: “Don’t hide your ear from my sighing, and my cry.”
World English Bible British
In The King James Version
Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.
In Context
55I called on your name, LORD, out of the lowest dungeon.
57You came near in the day that I called on you. You said, “Don’t be afraid.”
Cross References
2 Chronicles 33:19His prayer also, and how God listened to his request, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places in which he built high places and set up the Asherah poles and the engraved images before he humbled himself: behold, they are written in the history of Hozai.
Psalms 3:4I cry to the LORD with my voice, and he answers me out of his holy hill. Selah.
Psalms 5:3LORD, in the morning you will hear my voice. In the morning I will lay my requests before you, and will watch expectantly.
Psalms 6:9The LORD has heard my supplication. The LORD accepts my prayer.
Psalms 55:1Listen to my prayer, God. Don’t hide yourself from my supplication.
Psalms 55:18He has redeemed my soul in peace from the battle that was against me, although there are many who oppose 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 →