Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
You have heard my cry, "Do not shut your ear to my cry for help, for my relief!"
New American Standard Bible
“
From my cry for help.”
King James Version
Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.
Holman Bible
Do not ignore my cry for relief.
International Standard Version
You heard my voice don't close your ear to my sighs and cries.
A Conservative Version
Thou heard my voice. Hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.
American Standard Version
Thou heardest my voice; hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.
Amplified
You have heard my voice,
“Do not hide Your ear from my prayer for relief,
From my cry for help.”
Bible in Basic English
My voice came to you; let not your ear be shut to my breathing, to my cry.
Darby Translation
Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my sighing, at my cry.
Julia Smith Translation
Thou heardest my voice: thou wilt not hide thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.
King James 2000
You have heard my voice: hide not your ear at my breathing, at my cry.
Modern King James verseion
You have heard my voice; do not hide Your ear at my relief, at my cry for help.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Thou hast heard my voice, and hast not turned away thine ears from my sighing and crying.
NET Bible
You heard my plea: "Do not close your ears to my cry for relief!"
New Heart English Bible
You heard my voice; do not hide your ear at my sighs, to my cry.
The Emphasized Bible
My voice, thou hast heard, - do not close thine ear to my respite, to mine outcry;
Webster
Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thy ear at my breathing, at my cry.
World English Bible
You heard my voice; don't hide your ear at my breathing, at my cry.
Youngs Literal Translation
My voice Thou hast heard, Hide not Thine ear at my breathing -- at my cry.
Interlinear
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References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Lamentations 3:56
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel's Affliction
55 I have called your name, O Yahweh, from the depths of the pit. 56 You have heard my cry, "Do not shut your ear to my cry for help, for my relief!" 57 You came near on a day [when] I called you, you said, "Do not fear!"
Cross References
Psalm 55:1
Give ear, O God, [to] my prayer, and do not hide yourself from my plea.
Job 34:28
so that [they] cause [the] cry of distress from [the] helpless to come to him, and he hears [the] cry of distress from [the] needy,
2 Chronicles 33:13
and prayed to him. And God responded to him and heard his plea and let him return to Jerusalem to his kingdom. And Manasseh knew that Yahweh was God.
2 Chronicles 33:19
And his prayer, and [how] he responded to him, all his sin and his unfaithful acts, and the places where he built the high places and set up Asherahs and idols before he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the words of the seers.
Psalm 3:4
[With] my voice I call to Yahweh and he answers me from {his holy hill}. Selah
Psalm 6:8-9
Depart from me, all workers of evil, for Yahweh has heard the sound of my weeping.
Psalm 34:6
This poor [man] called and Yahweh heard, and saved him from all his troubles.
Psalm 66:19
However, God has listened; he has attended to the sound of my prayer.
Psalm 88:13-14
But as for me, I cry for help to you, O Yahweh, and in the morning my prayer comes before you.
Psalm 116:1-2
I love [him], because Yahweh has heard {the voice of my supplications}.
Isaiah 38:5
"Go and say to Hezekiah, 'Thus says Yahweh, the God of David your ancestor: "I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. {Look, I am going to} add fifteen years to your days.
Romans 8:26
And likewise also, the Spirit helps [us] in our weakness, for we do not know how to pray as one ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes [for us] [with] unexpressed groanings.