Lamentations 3:44
Covering yourself with a cloud, so that prayer may not get through.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.
In Context
43Covering yourself with wrath you have gone after us, cutting us off without pity;
45You have made us like waste and that for which there is no use, among the peoples.
Cross References
Psalms 80:5\80:4\O Lord God of armies, how long will your wrath be burning against the rest of your people?
Jeremiah 14:11And the Lord said to me, Make no prayer for this people for their good.
Lamentations 2:1How has the daughter of Zion been covered with a cloud by the Lord in his wrath! he has sent down from heaven to earth the glory of Israel, and has not kept in memory the resting-place of his feet in the day of his wrath.
Zechariah 7:13And it came about that as they would not give ear to his voice, so I would not give ear to their voice, says the Lord of armies:
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 →