Lamentations 3:44
You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.
World English Bible British
In The King James Version
Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.
In Context
43“You have covered us with anger and pursued us. You have killed. You have not pitied.
45You have made us an off-scouring and refuse in the middle of the peoples.
Cross References
Psalms 80:5You have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure.
Jeremiah 14:11The LORD said to me, “Don’t pray for this people for their good.
Lamentations 2:1How has the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger! He has cast the beauty of Israel down from heaven to the earth, and hasn’t remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.
Zechariah 7:13It has come to pass that, as he called and they refused to listen, so they will call and I will not listen,” said the LORD of Armies;
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 →