Lamentations 3:8
GIMEL. Yes, though I cry and shout, he shuts out my prayer.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
In Context
7He has builded against me, and I can’t come forth: he has made my brazen chain heavy.
9DALETH. He has built up my ways, he has hedged my paths;
Cross References
Job 30:20And I have cried to you, but you hear me not: but they stood still, and observed me.
Psalms 80:4For this is an ordinance for Israel, and a statute of the God of Jacob. 1
Lamentations 3:44You have veiled yourself with a cloud because of prayer, that I might be blind,
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 →