Lamentations 3:8
Also when I cry and shout, he shuts out my prayer.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
In Context
7He has hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he has made my chain heavy.
9He has enclosed my ways with hewn stone, he has made my paths crooked.
Cross References
Job 30:20I cry unto you, and you do not hear me: I stand up, and you regard me not.
Psalms 80:4O LORD God of hosts, how long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?
Lamentations 3:44You have covered yourself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.
Matthew 27:46And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why have you 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 →