Lamentations 3:8
Though I crye and call pitiously, yet heareth he not my prayer.
Bible (Bishops')
In The King James Version
Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
In Context
7He hath so hedged me in, that I can not get out, and hath layde heauie linkes vpon me.
9He hath stopped vp my wayes with foure squared stones, and made my pathes crooked.
Cross References
Lamentations 3:44Thou hast hid thy selfe in a cloude, that our prayer should not go through.
Matthew 27:46And about the nynth houre, Iesus cried with a loude voyce, saying: Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani, that is to say: My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken 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 →