Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
A prayer for deliverance and for vengeance upon his enemies.
Lamentations 3:55
Out of the low dungeon - " The lowest pit" of Psalms 88:6. Some consider that Ps. 69 was composed by Jeremiah, and is the prayer referred to here (Jeremiah 38:6 note).
Lamentations 3:56
Thou hast heard - In sending Ebedmelech to deliver me. The next clause signifies "Hide not thine ear to my relief to my cry," i. e. to my cry for relief.
Lamentations 3:58
God now appears as the prophet' s next of kin, pleading the lawsuits of his soul, i. e. the controversies which concern his salvation. and rescuing his life, in jeopardy through the malice of his enemies.
Lamentations 3:59
Wrong - Done to him by the perversion of justice.
Lamentations 3:60, Lamentations 3:61
Imaginations - Or, devices.
Lamentations 3:63
Their sitting down, and their rising up - i. e. all the ordinary actions of their life.
Musick - Or, song, "the subject of it."
Lamentations 3:64-66
The versions render the verbs in these verses as futures, "Thou shalt render unto them a recompence," etc.
Lamentations 3:65
Give them sorrow of heart - Or, "Thou wilt give them" blindness "of heart."
Lamentations 3:66
Persecute ... - Or, pursue them in anger and destroy them, etc.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Lamentations 3:56:
Psalms 55:1
Lamentations 3:55-66
Zechariah 9:11
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