Lamentations 3:44
Thou hast screened thyself with the clouds, that prayer, should not pass through;
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.
In Context
43Thou hast covered thyself with anger, and pursued us, hast slain—hast not spared;
45Offscouring and refuse, dost thou make us, in the midst of the peoples.
Cross References
Psalms 80:5Thou hast fed them with the food of tears, And hast caused them to drink the water of weeping in threefold abundance.
Jeremiah 14:11And Yahweh said unto me,—Do not pray for this people for blessing;
Lamentations 2:1How could My Lord, in his anger, enshroud in gloom, the daughter of Zion? have cast from the heavens to the earth, the beauty of Israel? and not have remembered his footstool, in the day of his anger?
Zechariah 7:13Therefore came it to pass that—just as he cried out and they hearkened not, so, used they to cry out, and I used not to hearken, saith Yahweh 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 →