Lamentations 3:8
Even when I send up a cry for help, he keeps my prayer shut out.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
In Context
9He has put up a wall of cut stones about my ways, he has made my roads twisted.
Cross References
Job 30:20You give no answer to my cry, and take no note of my prayer.
Psalms 80:4\80:3\Take us back again, O God; let us see the shining of your face, and let us be safe.
Lamentations 3:44Covering yourself with a cloud, so that prayer may not get through.
Matthew 27:46And about the ninth hour Jesus gave a loud cry, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is, My God, my God, why are you turned away from me?
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 3:2-21
The Prophet's Personal Affliction. ( b. c. 588.) 1 I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. 2 He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light. 3 Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day. 4 My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones. 5 He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail. 6 He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old. 7 He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath… Read the whole commentary →