Lamentations 3:56 (ASV)

Passage

Thou heardest my voice; hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.

Nearby Context

Lamentations 3:54 Waters flowed over my head; I said, I am cut off.

Lamentations 3:55 I called upon thy name, O Jehovah, out of the lowest dungeon.

Lamentations 3:56 Thou heardest my voice; hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.

Lamentations 3:57 Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee; thou saidst, Fear not.

Lamentations 3:58 O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "thou", "heardest", "voice", "hide", "thine", and "breathing". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "thou" and "heardest", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 55's "I called upon thy name O Jehovah..." into verse 57's "Thou drewest near in the day that...", so "thou" and "heardest" belong inside that flow. In Lamentations context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "thou" and "heardest" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.