Lamentations 3:8
Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
In Context
7He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed me down with chains.
9He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked.
Cross References
Job 30:20I cry out to You for help, but You do not answer; when I stand up, You merely look at me.
Psalms 80:4O LORD God of Hosts, how long will Your anger smolder against the prayers of Your people?
Lamentations 3:44You have covered Yourself with a cloud that no prayer can pass through.
Matthew 27:46About the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, My God, why have You 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 →