Lamentations 3:55-57

I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon. I called upon thy name ... out of the low dungeon. Thus the spirit resists the flesh, and faith spurns the temptation (Calvin; ; ).

Verse 56. Thou hast heard my voice. He means, not now, but formerly (so in ). My breathing ... my cry - two kinds of prayer; the sigh of a prayer silently breathed forth, and the loud, earnest cry. (Contrast , "a prayer," margin, 'a secret speech,' with , "cry aloud").

Verse 57. Thou drewest near - with thy help (). [Resh (r)]