Lamentations 3:56

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

My voice, thou hast heard, - do not close thine ear to my respite, to mine outcry;

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
You heard my plea:Do not ignore my cry for relief.

Hebrew Names Version
You heard my voice; don't hide your ear at my breathing, at my cry.

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

English Standard Version
you heard my plea, ‘Do not close your ear to my cry for help!'

New American Standard Bible
You have heard my voice, "Do not cover Your ear from my plea for relief, From my cry for help."

New Century Version
You heard me calling, "Do not close your ears and ignore my gasps and shouts."

Amplified Bible
You have heard my voice, "Do not hide Your ear from my prayer for relief, From my cry for help."

World English Bible
You heard my voice; don't hide your ear at my breathing, at my cry.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Thou hast heard my voyce: stoppe not thine eare from my sigh and from my cry.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
You have heard my voice, "Do not hide Your ear from my prayer for relief, From my cry for help."

Legacy Standard Bible
You have heard my voice,"Do not hide Your ear from my prayer for relief,From my cry for help."

Berean Standard Bible
You heard my plea: "Do not ignore my cry for relief."

Contemporary English Version
I begged you to listen. "Help!" I shouted. "Save me!" You answered my prayer

Complete Jewish Bible
You heard my voice; don't close your ear at my sighs, at my cries.

Darby Translation
Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my sighing, at my cry.

Easy-to-Read Version
You heard my voice. You didn't close your ears. You didn't refuse to rescue me.

George Lamsa Translation
Thou didst hear my voice; turn not thine ear to my cry; but relieve me and save me.

Good News Translation
And when I begged you to listen to my cry, you heard.

Lexham English Bible
You have heard my cry, "Do not shut your ear to my cry for help, for my relief!"

Literal Translation
You have heard my voice; do not hide Your ear at my relief, at my cry for help.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thou hast herde my voyce, & hast not turned awaye thine eares fro my sighinge and crienge.

American Standard Version
Thou heardest my voice; hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.

Bible in Basic English
My voice came to you; let not your ear be shut to my breathing, to my cry.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thou heardest my voice; hide not Thine ear at my sighing, at my cry.

King James Version (1611)
Thou hast heard my voice, hide not thine eare at my breathing, at my crie.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thou hast heard my voyce, and hast not turned away thyne eares from my sighing and crying.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Thou heardest my voice: close not thine ears to my supplication.

English Revised Version
Thou heardest my voice; hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Coph. Thou herdist my vois; turne thou not awei thin eere fro my sobbyng and cries.

Update Bible Version
You heard my voice; don't hide your ear at my breathing, at my cry.

Webster's Bible Translation
Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thy ear at my breathing, at my cry.

New English Translation
You heard my plea: "Do not close your ears to my cry for relief!"

New King James Version
You have heard my voice: "Do not hide Your ear From my sighing, from my cry for help."

New Living Translation
You heard me when I cried, "Listen to my pleading! Hear my cry for help!"

New Life Bible
You have heard my voice. Do not close Your ears to my cry for help.

New Revised Standard
you heard my plea, "Do not close your ear to my cry for help, but give me relief!"

Douay-Rheims Bible
Coph. Thou hast heard my voice: turn not away thy ear from my sighs, and cries.

Revised Standard Version
thou didst hear my plea, 'Do not close thine ear to my cry for help!'

Young's Literal Translation
My voice Thou hast heard, Hide not Thine ear at my breathing -- at my cry.

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

hast: 2 Chronicles 33:13, 2 Chronicles 33:19, Job 34:28, Psalms 3:4, Psalms 6:8, Psalms 6:9, Psalms 34:6, Psalms 66:19, Psalms 116:1, Psalms 116:2, Isaiah 38:5

hide: Psalms 55:1, Psalms 88:13, Psalms 88:14, Romans 8:26

Reciprocal: Psalms 64:1 - Hear 1 Timothy 2:8 - pray James 5:13 - any among

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thou hast heard my voice,.... Either in times past, when he cried unto him, and was delivered; and this was an encouragement to call upon him again in such extremity, who had shown himself to be a God hearing and answering prayer; hence it follows:

hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry; turn not a deaf ear to me, who hast been wont to hear me heretofore; stop not thine ear at my cry now, at my prayer, which he calls his "breathing"; prayer is the breath of a soul regenerated by the Spirit, and is a sign and evidence of life, when it is spiritual; in it a soul pants after God, and communion with him, and salvation by him. Some render it, "at my gasping" s; or "panting", for breath; just ready to expire, unless immediate help is given: or else the whole of this refers to the present time, when the Lord heard and answered, not only the first clause, but this also; which may be rendered, not by way of petition, but affirmation, "thou didst not hide thine ear at my breathing, at my cry" t; and this agrees both with what goes before, and with what is expressed in Lamentations 3:57.

s לרוחתי "ad anhelitum meum", Cocceius; "ad respirationem meam", Pagnius, Montanus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator. t אל תעלם "non avertisti", Grotius.

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.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

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.