In a pit. ( Psalm 50 v 15 )

God is mainly silent in the book of Lamentations, it is mainly about speaking to God, but in 3 v 57, we have the one time that He does speak, three simple words, ''Do not fear''.This was in answer to a prayer  by Jeremiah, when he was in a pit,we read about it in Jeremiah 38, he had proclaimed defeat and was arrested,they wanted him to be put to death,but they threw him into a cistern, and he sank into the mud. It is C. Wright describes it, ''Jeremiah sank down into the watery slime,which would have made it impossible to lie down without danger of death by drowning.The suffocating terror of such a nightmare he screams out in verse 57,''I am finished''..' .The Man was recounting a moment when he faced certain death.' God heard the cry of  his servant, he records these lovely words,''You came near when I called on you, you said,'Do not fear' Let us all take encouragement from what we have read, Jeremiah may have been in a pit ,but God saw him,God heard him,and God delivered him.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            1 Peter 3 v 12.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous,                                                                                            and His ears are open to their prayers.