Lamentations 3:44
You have covered Yourself with a cloud that no prayer can pass through.
Majority Standard Bible
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 in anger and pursued us; You have killed without pity.
45You have made us scum and refuse among the nations.
Cross References
Psalms 80:5You fed them with the bread of tears and made them drink the full measure of their tears.
Jeremiah 14:11Then the LORD said to me, “Do not pray for the well-being of this people.
Lamentations 2:1How the Lord has covered the Daughter of Zion with the cloud of His anger! He has cast the glory of Israel from heaven to earth. He has abandoned His footstool in the day of His anger.
Zechariah 7:13And just as I had called and they would not listen, so when they called I would not listen, says the LORD 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 →