Lamentations 3:8
Also when I cry and showte, hee shutteth out my prayer.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
In Context
7He hath hedged about mee, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chaines heauy.
9He hath stopped vp my wayes with hewen stone, and turned away my paths.
Cross References
Job 30:20Whe I cry vnto thee, thou doest not heare me, neither regardest me, when I stand vp.
Psalms 80:4O Lord God of hostes, how long wilt thou be angrie against the prayer of thy people?
Lamentations 3:44Thou hast couered thy selfe with a cloude, that our prayer should not passe through.
Matthew 27:46And about ye ninth houre Iesus cryed with a loud voyce, saying, Eli, Eli, lamasabachthani? that is, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
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 →