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Past Answers Fuel Present Prayer
Commentators note the powerful sequence in this verse. The speaker first declares, "Thou heardest my voice," recalling a past time God answered. This memory of past faithfulness provides the confidence for the present plea, "hide not thine ear." This teaches that remembering how God has helped before fuels our faith to cry out to Him in current troubles.
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Lamentations
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Albert Barnes
On Lamentations 3:55–66
18th Century
Theologian
Lamentations 3:55: A prayer for deliverance and for vengeance upon his enemies.
Out of the low dungeon - The lowest p…
Charles Ellicott
On Lamentations 3:56
19th Century
Bishop
Thou hast heard ... hide not thine ... —There is something eminently suggestive in the sequence of the two clauses. The r…
Charles Spurgeon
On Lamentations 3:56
19th Century
Preacher
Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.
Is that not a beautiful description of prayer, when the sou…
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John Calvin
On Lamentations 3:56
16th Century
Theologian
When the Prophet says that God heard, it is as if he said that he had prayed in such a way that God became a witness of his earnestness an…
John Gill
On Lamentations 3:56
17th Century
Pastor
You have heard my voice
Either in times past, when he cried unto him, and was delivered; and this was an encourageme…
Matthew Henry
On Lamentations 3:55–66
17th Century
Minister
Faith emerges victorious, for in these verses the prophet concludes with some comfort. Prayer is the breath of the new man, drawing in the air of m…