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Selected Verse: Lamentations 3:56 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| La 3:56 |
King James |
Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
Thou hast heard--namely formerly (so in Lam 3:57-58).
breathing . . . cry--two kinds of prayer; the sigh of a prayer silently breathed forth, and the loud, earnest cry (compare "prayer," "secret speech," Isa 26:16, Margin; with "cry aloud," Psa 55:17). |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Heard - In former afflictions. Hide not - Shew me now the same favour. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| 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. |
17 Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice.
16 LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them.
57 Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.
58 O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.