Lamentations 3:55

55 COPH invocavi nomen tuum Domine de lacis novissimis

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 SADE lapsa est in lacu vita mea et posuerunt lapidem super me
54 SADE inundaverunt aquae super caput meum dixi perii
55 COPH invocavi nomen tuum Domine de lacis novissimis
56 COPH vocem meam audisti ne avertas aurem tuam a singultu meo et clamoribus
57 COPH adpropinquasti in die quando invocavi te dixisti ne timeas
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