Lamentations 3:44
Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.
Webster Bible
In The King James Version
Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.
In Context
43Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
45Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
Cross References
Psalms 80:5Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.
Jeremiah 14:11Then said the LORD to me, Pray not for this people for their good.
Lamentations 2:1How hath the LORD covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven to the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!
Zechariah 7:13Therefore it is come to pass, that as he cried, and they would not hear; so they cried, and I would not hear, saith the LORD 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 →