"Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry." — Lamentations 3:56

Lamentations 3:56 · KJV

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

— Lamentations 3:56

Verse 55

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

Verse 57

Thou drewest near in the day {that} I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.

Lamentations 3 — Context

Waters flowed over mine head; {then} I said, I am cut off.

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.

Thou drewest near in the day {that} I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.

O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.

Cross References

Isaiah 38:5

Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years.

Job 34:28

So that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto him, and he heareth the cry of the afflicted.

Psalms 6:8-9

Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for the LORD hath heard the voice of my weeping.

Psalms 34:6

This poor man cried, and the LORD heard {him}, and saved him out of all his troubles.

Psalms 55:1

[To the chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil, {A Psalm} of David.] Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication. {chief...: or, overseer} {Maschil: or, of instruction}

Psalms 88:13-14

But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee.

Psalms 116:1-2

I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice {and} my supplications.

Psalms 3:4

I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah.