Lamentations 3:44
Thou hast couered thy selfe with a cloude, that our prayer should not passe through.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.
In Context
43Thou hast couered vs with wrath, and persecuted vs: thou hast slaine and not spared.
45Thou hast made vs as the ofscouring and refuse in the middes of the people.
Cross References
Psalms 80:5Thou hast fedde them with the bread of teares, and giuen them teares to drinke with great measure.
Jeremiah 14:11Then sayd the Lord vnto me, Thou shalt not pray to do this people good.
Lamentations 2:1How hath the Lord darkened the daughter of Zion in his wrath! and hath cast downe from heauen vnto the earth the beautie of Israel, and remembred not his footestoole in the day of his wrath!
Zechariah 7:13Therefore it is come to passe, that as he cried, and they would not heare, so they cried, and I would not heare, sayth the Lord of hostes.
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 →