Parallel Verses
New Heart English Bible
You heard my voice; do not hide your ear at my sighs, to my cry.
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.
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!"
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, LORD, out of the depths of the pit. 56 You heard my voice; do not hide your ear at my sighs, to my cry. 57 You drew near in the day that I called on you; you said, "Do not be afraid."
Cross References
Psalm 55:1
Listen to my prayer, God. Do not hide yourself from my supplication.
Job 34:28
so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him. He heard the cry of the afflicted.
2 Chronicles 33:13
He prayed to him; and he was entreated by him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD was God.
2 Chronicles 33:19
His prayer also, and how God was entreated of him, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places in which he built high places, and set up the Asherim and the engraved images, before he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the Record of the Seers.
Psalm 3:4
I cry to the LORD with my voice, and he answers me out of his holy hill. Selah.
Psalm 6:8-9
Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, 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 out of all his troubles.
Psalm 66:19
But most certainly, God has listened. He has heard the voice of my prayer.
Psalm 88:13-14
But to you, LORD, I have cried. In the morning, my prayer comes before you.
Psalm 116:1-2
I love the LORD, because he listens to my voice, and my cries for mercy.
Isaiah 38:5
"Go, and tell Hezekiah, 'Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father, "I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.
Romans 8:26
In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we do not know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.