Lamentations 3:8

But and when I cry and pray, he hath excluded my prayer.

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

In The King James Version

Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.

In Context

7He builded about against me, (so) that I go not out; he aggrieved my gyves (or he made my chains heavy).

9He closed together my ways with square stones; he destroyed my paths. (He altogether enclosed my ways with square stones; he destroyed my paths.)

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Cross References

Job 30:20I shall cry to thee, and thou shalt not hear me; I stand, and thou beholdest not me. (I cry to thee, but thou hearest me not, or but thou answerest me not; I stand up, but thou seest me not.)

Psalms 80:4Lord God of virtues, how long shalt thou be wroth on the prayer of thy servant (s)? (Lord God of hosts, how long shalt thou be angry with thy people’s prayers?)

Lamentations 3:44Thou settedest a cloud to thee, that prayer pass not. (Thou hast set a cloud before thee, that prayers cannot pass through.)

Matthew 27:46And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a great voice, and said, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani, 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 →

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