Lamentations 3:8
Also when I cry aloud and make entreaty, he shutteth out my prayer.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
In Context
7He hath placed a fence round about me, that I cannot get out; he hath made heavy my chain.
9He hath fenced up my ways with hewn stone, my paths hath he made crooked.
Cross References
Job 30:20I cry aloud unto thee, but thou answerest me not: I stand up, and thou fixest thy regard against me.
Psalms 80:4(80:5) O Lord of hosts, how long shall thy anger smoke against the prayer of thy people?
Lamentations 3:44Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that no prayer should pass through.
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 →