Lamentations 3 · Verse 56

Lamentations 3:56

Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.
Lamentations 3:56, King James Version

Lamentations 3:56 in other translations

BSBYou heard my plea: “Do not ignore my cry for relief.”
WEBYou heard my voice: “Don’t hide your ear from my sighing, and my cry.”
ASVThou heardest my voice; hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.
YLTMy voice Thou hast heard, Hide not Thine ear at my breathing--at my cry.
DARBYThou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my sighing, at my cry.
BBEMy voice came to you; let not your ear be shut to my breathing, to my cry.
WebsterThou hast heard my voice: hide not thy ear at my breathing, at my cry.

What does Lamentations 3:56 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Lamentations 3:55-57

55-57. I called out of dungeon--Thus the spirit resists the flesh, and faith spurns the temptation [Calvin], (Psa 130:1; Jon 2:2).

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 56 Hide not thine ear at my breathing - He dared not even to complain, nor to cry, nor to pray aloud: he was obliged to whisper his prayer to God. It was only a breathing.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Lamentations 3:55-66

Faith comes off conqueror, for in these verses the prophet concludes with some comfort. Prayer is the breath of the new man, drawing in the air of mercy in petitions, and returning it in praises; it proves and maintains the spiritual life. He silenced their fears, and quieted their spirits. Thou saidst, Fear not. This was the language of God's grace, by the witness of his Spirit with their spirits. And what are all…

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Lamentations 3:56 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

קוֹלִ֖יko.Livoice myH6963
שָׁמָ֑עְתָּsha.Ma.'e.tayou heardH8085
אַל\־'al-may notH408
תַּעְלֵ֧םta'.Lemyou hideH5956
אָזְנְךָ֛'a.ze.ne.Khaear yourH241
לְרַוְחָתִ֖יle.rav.cha.Tito relief myH7309
לְשַׁוְעָתִֽי\׃le.shav.'a.Tito cry for help myH7775

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Lamentations 3:56

  • Job 34:28

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

  • Isaiah 38:5

    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.

  • Psalms 55:1

    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.

  • Psalms 6:8-9

    Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for the Lord hath heard the voice of my weeping. The Lord hath heard my supplication; the Lord will receive my prayer.

  • Psalms 34:6

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

  • Psalms 88:13-14

    But unto thee have I cried, O Lord; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee. Lord, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?

  • Psalms 116:1-2

    I love the Lord, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications. Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live.

  • Romans 8:26

    Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

  • Psalms 66:19

    But verily God hath heard me; he hath attended to the voice of my prayer.

  • 2 Chronicles 33:13

    And prayed unto him: and he was intreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the Lord he was God.

  • Psalms 3:4

    I cried unto the Lord with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah.

  • 2 Chronicles 33:19

    His prayer also, and how God was intreated of him, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they are written among the sayings of the seers.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
hast.
2Ch 33:13,19; Job 34:28; Ps 3:4; 6:8,9; 34:6; 66:19; 116:1,2
Isa 38:5
hide.
Ps 55:1; 88:13,14; Ro 8:26

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Context

  • Lamentations 3:55

    I called upon thy name, O Lord, out of the low dungeon.

  • Lamentations 3:56

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

  • Lamentations 3:57

    Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.

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Lamentations 3:56 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Oiste mi voz; no escondas tu oído á mi clamor, para mi respiro.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Tu as entendu ma voix; ne cache point ton oreille à mon soupir, à mon cri.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Du hast meine Stimme gehört; verbirg dein Ohr nicht vor meinem Seufzen, meinem Schreien!
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Vocem meam audisti; ne avertas aurem tuam a singultu meo et clamoribus.