Lamentations 3:56

Thou hast heard their reproach, O Lord,.... Their reproachful words uttered against the prophet and his people, against God himself; their spiteful language, their taunts, and scoffs and jeers:

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A prayer for deliverance and for vengeance upon his enemies. Lam 3:55 Out of the low dungeon - “The lowest pit” of Psa 88:6. Some consider that Ps. 69 was composed by Jeremiah, and is the prayer…

Hide not thine ear at my breathing - He dared not even to complain, nor to cry, nor to pray aloud: he was obliged to whisper his prayer to God. It was only a breathing.

We may observe throughout this chapter a struggle in the prophet's breast between sense and faith, fear and hope; he complains and then comforts himself, yet drops his comforts and returns again to…

The word rendered "breathing" occurs but once elsewhere (Exo 8:15 [Heb. Lam 3:3]), and has there the sense of respite, relief. Accordingly Ewald proposes (by a change of one consonant) to render my…