Lamentations 3:55
I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
Webster Bible
In The King James Version
I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
In Context
54Waters flowed over my head; then I said, I am cut off.
56Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thy ear at my breathing, at my cry.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 33:11Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
Psalms 40:1To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined to me, and heard my cry.
Psalms 116:3The sorrows of death encompassed me, and the pains of hell came upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
Psalms 142:3When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way in which I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.
Jonah 2:2And said, I cried by reason of my affliction to the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardst my voice.
Acts 16:24Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet 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 →