Lamentations 3:55
I have called upon thy Name, O Yahweh, out of the dungeon below;
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
In Context
54Waters, flowed over, my head, I said, I am cut off!
56My voice, thou hast heard,—do not close thine ear to my respite, to mine outcry;
Cross References
2 Chronicles 33:11So Yahweh brought in upon them, the captains of the army that belonged to the king of Assyria, and they captured Manasseh with hooks,—and bound him captive with a pair of bronze fetters, and took him away to Babylon.
Psalms 40:1I waited patiently for Yahweh,—And he inclined, unto me, and heard my cry for help;
Psalms 116:3The meshes of death encompassed me, and the distresses of hades, came upon me, Peril and sorrow, I found;
Psalms 142:3When my spirit fainted concerning myself, then, thou, didst take note of my path,—In the course which I was about to take, they had hidden a snare for me.
Jonah 2:2and said—I cried—out of my distress—unto Yahweh, and he answered me,—Out of the belly of hades, called I, Thou didst hear my voice.
Acts 16:24who, a charge like this receiving, thrust them into the inner prison, and, their feet, made he fast 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 →