Lamentations 3:44
Thou have covered thyself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.
In Context
43Thou have covered with anger and pursued us. Thou have slain; thou have not pitied.
45Thou have made us an off-scouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.
Cross References
Psalms 80:5Thou have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure.
Jeremiah 14:11And LORD said to me, Pray not for this people for good.
Lamentations 2:1How LORD has covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger! He has cast down the beauty of Israel from heaven to the earth, and has not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.
Zechariah 7:13And it has come to pass that, as he cried, and they would not hear, so they shall cry, and I will not hear, said LORD of hosts.
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 3:43-55
Complaining to God. ( b. c. 588.) 42 We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned. 43 Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied. 44 Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through. 45 Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people. 46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us. 47 Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction. 48 Mine eye runneth down with rivers of… Read the whole commentary →