Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.
My voice Thou hast heard, Hide not Thine ear at my breathing--at my cry.
You heard my plea: “Do not ignore my cry for relief.”
Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my sighing, at my cry.
Lamentations — Five poems over the ruin of Jerusalem. The first four are alphabetic acrostics — every letter of the Hebrew alphabet drafted to hold the weight of grief. At the book's centre, mercy renewed every morning.
Voices1
Thou hast heard--namely formerly (so in La 3:57, 58). breathing . . . cry--two kinds of prayer; the sigh of a prayer silently breathed forth, and the loud, earnest cry (compare "prayer," "secret speech," Isa 26:16, Margin; with "cry aloud," Ps 55:17).
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed
The verses this one reaches12
Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith Jehovah, 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.
So that they caused the cry of the poor to come unto him, And he heard the cry of the afflicted.
This poor man cried, and Jehovah heard him, And saved him out of all his troubles.
But unto thee, O Jehovah, have I cried; And in the morning shall my prayer come before thee.
Give ear to my prayer, O God; And hide not thyself from my supplication.
Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; For Jehovah hath heard the voice of my weeping.
But verily God hath heard; He hath attended to the voice of my prayer.
I cry unto Jehovah with my voice, And he answereth me out of his holy hill. [Selah
And in like manner the Spirit also helpeth our infirmity: for we know not how to pray as we ought; but the Spirit himself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered;
And he prayed unto him; and he was entreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that Jehovah he was God.
I love Jehovah, because he heareth My voice and my supplications.
His prayer also, and how God was entreated of him, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up the Asherim and the graven images, before he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the history of Hozai.
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Psalms 34:6This poor man cried, and Jehovah heard him, And saved him out of all his troubles.
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The righteous cried, and Jehovah heard, And delivered them out of all their troubles.
I cry unto Jehovah with my voice, And he answereth me out of his holy hill. [Selah
Jehovah, thou hast heard the desire of the meek: Thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear;
Come, and hear, all ye that fear God, And I will declare what he hath done for my soul.
But I am poor and needy; Yet the Lord thinketh upon me: Thou art my help and my deliverer; Make no tarrying, O my God.
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Isaiah 38:5Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith Jehovah, 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.
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And this is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he heareth us:
They looked unto him, and were radiant; And their faces shall never be confounded.
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Psalms 55:1Give ear to my prayer, O God; And hide not thyself from my supplication.
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For the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, And his ears unto their supplication: But the face of the Lord is upon them that do evil.
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