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Lamentations 3:55

Context

ק (Qof)

3:55 I have called on your name, O Lord,

from the deepest pit. 1 

Lamentations 3:57

Context

3:57 You came near 2  on the day I called to you;

you said, 3  “Do not fear!”

1 tn Heb “from a pit of lowest places.”

2 tn The verb could be understood as a precative (“Draw near”). The perspective of the poem seems to be that of prayer during distress rather than a testimony that God has delivered.

3 tn The verb could be understood as a precative (“Say”).



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