Lamentations 3:44
SAMECH. You have set a cloud opposite you, lest our prayer pass through.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.
In Context
45SAMECH. In the midst of the peoples, you have uprooted me and cast me out.
Cross References
Psalms 80:5for it is a precept in Israel and a judgment for the God of Jacob.
Jeremiah 14:11And the Lord said to me: “Do not choose to pray for this people for good.
Lamentations 2:1ALEPH. O how the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion with gloom in his fury! O how he has thrown down from heaven to earth the famous one of Israel, and he has not remembered his footstool in the day of his fury.
Zechariah 7:13And it happened, just as he had spoken, and they did not pay attention. So then, they shall cry out, and I will not heed, says the 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 →