Lamentations 3:56

New English Translation

⁵⁶You heard^[a] my plea:^[b]
“Do not close your ears to my cry for relief!”^[c]

Lamentations 3:56 tn The verb could be understood as a precative (“Hear my plea”) parallel to the following volitive verb, “do not close.”
Lamentations 3:56 tn Heb “my voice.”
Lamentations 3:56 tn The preposition ל (lamed) continues syntactically from “my plea” in the previous line (e.g. Ex 5:2; Josh 22:2; 1 Sam 8:7; 12:1; Jer 43:4).

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