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Klagelieder 3:55
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Aber ich rief, Herr , deinen Namen an, tief unten aus der Grube.
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.
