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Klagelieder 3:56
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Du hörtest meine Stimme: „Verschließe dein Ohr nicht vor meinem Seufzen, vor meinem Hilferuf!"
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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.
