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Lamentations 3:55–56

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ק (Qof)

3:55I have called on your name, O Lord,

from the deepest pit.114

3:56You heard115 my plea:116

“Do not close your ears to my cry for relief!”117

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Footnotes

  1. 114 Heb “from a pit of lowest places.”
  2. 115 The verb could be understood as a precative, “hear my plea,” parallel to the following volitive verb, “do not close.”
  3. 116 Heb “my voice.”
  4. 117 The preposition ל (lamed) continues syntactically from “my plea” in the previous line (e.g. Ex 5:2; Josh 22:2; 1 Sam 8:7; 12:1; Jer 43:4).

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

“I called on your name, O Lord,

from the depths of the pit;

you heard my plea, ‘Do not close

your ear to my cry for help!’

NIVNew International Version (2011)

I called on your name, Lord,

from the depths of the pit.

You heard my plea: “Do not close your ears

to my cry for relief.”

CSBChristian Standard Bible

I called on your name, Lord,

from the depths of the pit.

You heard my plea:

Do not ignore my cry for relief.

NLTNew Living Translation

But I called on your name, Lord,

from deep within the pit.

You heard me when I cried, “Listen to my pleading!

Hear my cry for help!”

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

I have called your name, O Yahweh,

from the depths of the pit.

You have heard my cry, “Do not shut your ear

to my cry for help, for my relief!”

KJV 1900King James Version

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

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