Lamentations 3:55

55 "I call your name from the deepest pit, O LORD.

Lamentations 3:55 Meaning and Commentary

Lamentations 3:55

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" F18; 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.


FOOTNOTES:

F18 (twytxt rwbm) "e cisterna infimitatum", Piscator.

Lamentations 3:55 In-Context

53 They threw me alive into a pit and threw rocks at me.
54 Water flowed over my head. I thought I was finished.
55 "I call your name from the deepest pit, O LORD.
56 Listen to my cry [for help]. Don't close your ears when I cry out for relief.
57 Be close at hand when I call to you. You told me not to be afraid.
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