Parallel Verses
Amplified
You have heard my voice,
“Do not hide Your ear from my prayer for relief,
From my cry for help.”
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.
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.
Lexham Expanded Bible
You have heard my cry, "Do not shut your ear to my cry for help, for my relief!"
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 called on Your name, O Lord,
Out of the lowest pit.
You have heard my voice,
“Do not hide Your ear from my prayer for relief,
From my cry for help.”
You drew near on the day I called to You;
You said, “Do not fear.”
Cross References
Psalm 55:1
And do not hide Yourself from my plea.
Job 34:28
So that they caused the cry of the poor to come to Him,
And He heard the cry of the afflicted.
2 Chronicles 33:13
When he prayed to Him, He was moved by his entreaty and heard his pleading, and brought him back to Jerusalem to his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the Lord is God.
2 Chronicles 33:19
His prayer also and how God heard him, and all his sin, his unfaithfulness, and the sites on which he built high places and set up the Asherim and the carved images, before he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the records of the
Psalm 3:4
With my voice I was crying to the Lord,
And He answered me from His holy mountain. Selah.
Psalm 6:8-9
Depart from me, all you who do evil,
For the Lord has heard the voice of my weeping.
Psalm 34:6
This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him
And saved him from all his troubles.
Psalm 66:19
But certainly God has heard [me];
He has given heed to the voice of my prayer.
Psalm 88:13-14
But I have cried out to You, O Lord, for help;
And in the morning my prayer will come to You.
Psalm 116:1-2
My voice and my supplications (my pleas, my cries, my specific needs).
Isaiah 38:5
“Go and say to Hezekiah, ‘For the Lord, the God of David your father says this, “I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; listen carefully, I will add fifteen years to your life.
Romans 8:26
In the same way the Spirit [comes to us and] helps us in our weakness. We do not know what prayer to offer or how to offer it as we should, but the Spirit Himself [knows our need and at the right time] intercedes on our behalf with sighs and groanings too deep for words.