Lamentations 3:55
I called Thy name, O Jehovah, from the lower pit.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
In Context
54Flowed have waters over my head, I have said, I have been cut off.
56My voice Thou hast heard, Hide not Thine ear at my breathing — at my cry.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 33:11and Jehovah bringeth in against them the heads of the host that the king of Asshur hath, and they capture Manasseh among the thickets, and bind him with brazen fetters, and cause him to go to Babylon.
Psalms 40:1To the Overseer. — A Psalm of David. I have diligently expected Jehovah, And He inclineth to me, and heareth my cry,
Psalms 116:3Compassed me have cords of death, And straits of Sheol have found me, Distress and sorrow I find.
Psalms 142:3When my spirit hath been feeble in me, Then Thou hast known my path; In the way [in] which I walk, They have hid a snare for me.
Jonah 2:2And he saith: I called, because of my distress, to Jehovah, And He doth answer me, From the belly of sheol I have cried, Thou hast heard my voice.
Acts 16:24who such a charge having received, did put them to the inner prison, and their feet made 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 →