Lamentations 3:55

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

I have called upon thy Name, O Yahweh, out of the dungeon below;

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I called on your name, Lord,from the depths of the pit.

Hebrew Names Version
I called on your name, LORD, out of the lowest dungeon.

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

English Standard Version
"I called on your name, O Lord , from the depths of the pit;

New American Standard Bible
I called on Your name, LORD, Out of the lowest pit.

New Century Version
I called out to you, Lord , from the bottom of the pit.

Amplified Bible
I called on Your name, O LORD, Out of the lowest pit.

World English Bible
I called on your name, Yahweh, out of the lowest dungeon.

Geneva Bible (1587)
I called vpon thy Name, O Lorde, out of the lowe dungeon.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
I called on Your name, O LORD, Out of the lowest pit.

Legacy Standard Bible
I called on Your name, O Yahweh,Out of the lowest pit.

Berean Standard Bible
I called on Your name, O LORD, out of the depths of the Pit.

Contemporary English Version
From the bottom of the pit, I prayed to you, Lord .

Complete Jewish Bible
I called on your name, Adonai , from the bottom of the pit.

Darby Translation
I called upon thy name, Jehovah, out of the lowest pit.

Easy-to-Read Version
Lord , I called your name from the bottom of the pit.

George Lamsa Translation
I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the depths of the pit.

Good News Translation
"From the bottom of the pit, O Lord , I cried out to you,

Lexham English Bible
I have called your name, O Yahweh, from the depths of the pit.

Literal Translation
I called on Your name, O Jehovah, from the lowest pit.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I called vpon thy name (O LORDE) out of the depe pitte.

American Standard Version
I called upon thy name, O Jehovah, out of the lowest dungeon.

Bible in Basic English
I was making prayer to your name, O Lord, out of the lowest prison.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
I called upon Thy name, O LORD, Out of the lowest dungeon.

King James Version (1611)
I called vpon thy name, O Lord, out of the low dungeon.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
I called vpon thy name O Lorde out of the deepe pit.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
KOPH. I called upon thy name, O Lord, out of the lowest dungeon.

English Revised Version
I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the lowest dungeon.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Coph. Lord, Y clepide to help thi name, fro the laste lake.

Update Bible Version
I called on your name, O Yahweh, out of the lowest dungeon.

Webster's Bible Translation
I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.

New English Translation

ק (Qof)

I have called on your name, O Lord , from the deepest pit.

New King James Version
I called on Your name, O LORD, From the lowest pit.

New Living Translation
But I called on your name, Lord , from deep within the pit.

New Life Bible
I called on Your name, O Lord, out of the deep hole.

New Revised Standard
I called on your name, O Lord , from the depths of the pit;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Coph. I have called upon thy name, O Lord, from the lowest pit.

Revised Standard Version
"I called on thy name, O LORD, from the depths of the pit;

Young's Literal Translation
I called Thy name, O Jehovah, from the lower pit.

THE MESSAGE
"I called out your name, O God , called from the bottom of the pit. You listened when I called out, ‘Don't shut your ears! Get me out of here! Save me!' You came close when I called out. You said, ‘It's going to be all right.'

Contextual Overview

⁵⁵ I have called upon thy Name, O Yahweh, out of the dungeon below; ⁵⁶ My voice, thou hast heard, - do not close thine ear to my respite, to mine outcry; ⁵⁷ Thou drewest near, in the day I kept calling on thee, thou saidst, Do not fear! ⁵⁸ Thou hast pleaded, O My Lord, the pleas of my soul, hast redeemed my life; ⁵⁹ Thou hast beheld, O Yahweh, my failure to get justice, Pronounce thou my sentence; ⁶⁰ Thou hast seen all their vindictiveness, all their plots against me. ⁶¹ Thou hast heard their reproach, O Yahweh, all their plots against me; ⁶² The lips of mine assailants, and their mutterings, are against me, all the day; ⁶³ On their downsitting and their uprising, do thou look, I, am their song. ⁶⁴ Thou wilt render to them a recompense, O Yahweh, according to the work of their hands;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

2 Chronicles 33:11, 2 Chronicles 33:12, Psalms 18:5, Psalms 18:6, Psalms 40:1, Psalms 40:2, Psalms 69:13-18, Psalms 116:3, Psalms 116:4, Psalms 130:1, Psalms 130:2, Psalms 142:3-7, Jeremiah 38:6, Jonah 2:2-4, Acts 16:24-28

Reciprocal: Psalms 31:22 - I am Psalms 64:1 - Hear Psalms 66:19 - General Psalms 69:14 - Deliver Psalms 86:7 - General Jeremiah 37:16 - into the dungeon Acts 5:23 - The prison 1 Timothy 2:8 - pray James 5:13 - any among

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I called upon thy name, O Lord,.... As in times past, so in the present distress; when all hope was gone, and all help failed, still there was a God to go to, and call upon:

out of the low dungeon; or "dungeon of lownesses" r; the lowest dungeon, the deepest distress, a man or people could be in; yet then and there it is not too late to call upon the Lord; and there may be hope of deliverance out of such an estate by him.

r מבור תחתיות "e cisterna infimitatum", Piscator.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A prayer for deliverance and for vengeance upon his enemies.

Lamentations 3:55

Out of the low dungeon - “The lowest pit” of Psalms 88:6. Some consider that Psalms 69:0 was composed by Jeremiah, and is the prayer referred to here (Jeremiah 38:6 note).

Lamentations 3:56

Thou hast heard - In sending Ebedmelech to deliver me. The next clause signifies “Hide not thine ear to my relief to my cry,” i. e. to my cry for relief.

Lamentations 3:58

God now appears as the prophet’s next of kin, pleading the lawsuits of his soul, i. e. the controversies which concern his salvation. and rescuing his life, in jeopardy through the malice of his enemies.

Lamentations 3:59

Wrong - Done to him by the perversion of justice.

Lamentations 3:60, Lamentations 3:61

Imaginations - Or, devices.

Lamentations 3:63

Their sitting down, and their rising up - i. e. all the ordinary actions of their life.

Musick - Or, song, “the subject of it.”

Lamentations 3:64-66

The versions render the verbs in these verses as futures, “Thou shalt render unto them a recompence,” etc.

Lamentations 3:65

Give them sorrow of heart - Or, “Thou wilt give them” blindness “of heart.”

Lamentations 3:66

Persecute ... - Or, pursue them in anger and destroy them, etc.