KJV King James Version
Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.
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Lamentations 3:56
Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
You heard my plea: “Do not ignore my cry for relief.”
WEB World English Bible
You heard my voice; don’t hide your ear at my breathing, at my cry.
ASV American Standard Version
Thou heardest my voice; hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
My voice Thou hast heard, Hide not Thine ear at my breathing—at my cry.
Surrounding context — Lamentations 3
53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
54 Waters flowed over mine head; [then] I said, I am cut off.
55 I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
56 Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.
57 Thou drewest near in the day [that] I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.
58 O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.
59 O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.
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Job 34:28So that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto him, and he heareth the cry of the afflicted.Isaiah 38:5Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years.Psalm 6:8-9Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for the LORD hath heard the voice of my weeping.Psalm 34:6This poor man cried, and the LORD heard [him], and saved him out of all his troubles.Psalm 88:13-14But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee.Psalm 55:1To the chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil, [A Psalm] of David. Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication.Psalm 116:1-2I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice [and] my supplications.2 Chronicles 33:13And prayed unto him: and he was intreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD he [was] God.Psalm 66:19[But] verily God hath heard [me]; he hath attended to the voice of my prayer.Romans 8:26Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.Psalm 3:4I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah.2 Chronicles 33:19His prayer also, and [how God] was intreated of him, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they [are] written among the sayings of the seers.
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