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Lamentations 3:57 KJV
Lamentations · chapter 3 · verse 57
Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.Lamentations 3:57 · King James Version
Lamentations 3:57 in context
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.
58O LORD, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.
59O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- calledqârâʼto call out toH7121 →
- saidstʼâmarto sayH559 →
- nearqârabto approach for whatever purposeH7126 →
- dayyôwma day , whether literal , or figurativeH3117 →
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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