Lamentations 3:8
Yea, though I cry and shout, 1 He shuts out my prayer. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
In Context
7He has built against me, and I cannot come forth: 1 He has made my brazen chain heavy. 1
9He has built up my ways, 1 He has hedged my paths; 1
Cross References
Job 30:20And I have cried to thee, but thou hearest me not: 1 But they stood still, and observed me. 1
Psalms 80:4Blow the trumpet at the new moon, 1 In the glorious day of your feast. 1
Lamentations 3:44Thou hast veiled thyself with a cloud 1 Because of prayer, 1 That I might be blind, 1
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 →