Soak Bible
Navigate

56Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.

Lamentations 3:56

Linguistic Insight

of 6

Tap any underlined word in the verse to see its original meaning.

Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • So that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto him, and he heareth the cry of the afflicted.

  • Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years.

  • Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for the LORD hath heard the voice of my weeping. …

  • This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

  • To the chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil, A Psalm of David. Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication.

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 55-65)

We may observe throughout this chapter a struggle in the prophet’s breast between sense and faith, fear and hope; he complains and then comforts himself, yet drops his comforts and returns again to his complaints, as Ps. 42:1-11. But, as there, so here, faith gets the last word and comes off a conqueror; for in these verses he concludes with some comfort. And here are two things with which he comf…

My Notes

Notes are saved on this device.