Lamentations 3:8
Also when I call and cry out, || He has shut out my prayer.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
In Context
7He has hedged me in, and I do not go out, || He has made heavy my chain.
9He has hedged my ways with hewn work, || My paths He has made crooked.
Cross References
Job 30:20I cry to You, || And You do not answer me, I have stood, and You consider me.
Psalms 80:4YHWH, God of Hosts, until when? You have burned against the prayer of Your people.
Lamentations 3:44You have covered Yourself with a cloud, || So that prayer does not pass through.
Matthew 27:46and about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a great voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?” That is, “My God, My God, why did You forsake 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 →