Lamentations 3:44
You have covered Yourself with a cloud, || So that prayer does not pass through.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.
In Context
43You have covered Yourself with anger, || And pursue us; You have slain—You have not pitied.
45Outcast and refuse You make us || In the midst of the peoples.
Cross References
Psalms 80:5You have caused them to eat bread of tears, || And cause them to drink || With tears a third time.
Jeremiah 14:11And YHWH says to me: “You do not pray for this people for good.
Lamentations 2:1[ALEPH-BET] How the Lord clouds in His anger the daughter of Zion, || He has cast from the heavens [to] earth the beauty of Israel, || And has not remembered His footstool in the day of His anger.
Zechariah 7:13And it comes to pass, as He called, || And they have not listened, || So they call, and I do not listen,” said YHWH 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 →