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Lamentations 3:56

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3:56You heard115 my plea:116

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

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Footnotes

  1. 115 The verb could be understood as a precative, “hear my plea,” parallel to the following volitive verb, “do not close.”
  2. 116 Heb “my voice.”
  3. 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

you heard my plea, ‘Do not close

your ear to my cry for help!’

NIVNew International Version (2011)

You heard my plea: “Do not close your ears

to my cry for relief.”

CSBChristian Standard Bible

You heard my plea:

Do not ignore my cry for relief.

NLTNew Living Translation

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

Hear my cry for help!”

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

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

to my cry for help, for my relief!”

KJV 1900King James Version

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