Lamentations 3:44
You have wrapped yourself with a cloud that no prayer can penetrate.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.
In Context
45You have made us waste and refuse to the nations all around.
Cross References
Psalms 80:5You fed them with the bread of tears, and gave them a full bowl of tears to drink.
Jeremiah 14:11The Lord told me, Don't pray for the welfare of this people.
Lamentations 2:1How the Lord has spread a cloud of his anger over the Daughter of Zion! He has thrown down Israel's glory from heaven to earth. He has deserted his Temple from the time he became angry.
Zechariah 7:13So since they didn't listen when I called out to them, I wouldn't listen when they called out to me, says the Lord Almighty.
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 →