Lamentations 3:44
Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that no prayer should pass through.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.
In Context
45As something loathsome and rejected hast thou rendered us in the midst of the people.
Cross References
Psalms 80:5(80:6) Thou feedest them with the bread of tears, and givest them tears to drink in great measure.
Jeremiah 14:11Then said the Lord unto me, Pray not in behalf of this people for their good.
Lamentations 2:1Oh how hath the Lord covered in his anger the daughter of Zion with a cloud; he hath cast down from heaven unto the earth the ornament of Israel; and he hath not remembered his footstool on the day of his anger!
Zechariah 7:13And it is come to pass, that as he proclaimed, and they would not hear: so had they to call, and I would 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 →