Lamentations 3:44
Samech. Thou hast set a cloud before thee, that our prayer may not pass through.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.
In Context
43Samech. Thou hast covered in thy wrath, and hast struck us: thou hast killed and hast not spared.
45Samech. Thou hast made me as an outcast, and refuse in the midst of the people.
Cross References
Psalms 80:5O Lord God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy servant?
Jeremiah 14:11And the Lord said to me: Pray not for this people for their good.
Lamentations 2:1Aleph. How hath the Lord covered with obscurity the daughter of Sion in his wrath! how hath he cast down from heaven to the earth the glorious one of Israel, and hath not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger!
Zechariah 7:13And it came to pass that as he spoke, and they heard not: so shall they cry, and I will not hear, saith 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 →