Lamentations 3:8
Yea, when I make outcry and implore, he hath shut out my prayer;
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
In Context
7He hath walled up around me, that I cannot get out, hath weighted my fetter;
9He hath walled in my ways with hewn stone, my paths, hath he caused to wind back.
Cross References
Job 30:20I cry out for help unto thee, and thou dost not answer, I stand still, and thou dost gaze at me;
Psalms 80:4O Yahweh, God of hosts! How long hast thou been wroth with the prayer of thy people?
Lamentations 3:44Thou hast screened thyself with the clouds, that prayer, should not pass through;
Matthew 27:46And, about the ninth hour, Jesus uttered a cry, with a loud voice, saying—Eloi! Eloi! lema sabachthanei? that is, My God! my God! to what end 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 →