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Lamentations 3:55 KJV
Lamentations · chapter 3 · verse 55
I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.Lamentations 3:55 · King James Version
Lamentations 3:55 in context
53They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
54Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.
55I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
56Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.
57Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- calledqârâʼto call out toH7121 →
- nameshêman appellation, as amark or memorial of individualityH8034 →
- LORDYᵉhôvâhJehovah, Jewish national name of GodH3068 →
- lowtachtîylowermostH8482 →
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We may observe throughout this chapter a struggle in the prophet's breast between sense and faith, fear and hope; he complains and then comforts himself, yet drops his comforts and returns again to his complaints, as Psa 42:1-11. But, as there, so here, faith gets the last word and comes off a conqueror;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 55-66