Lamentations 3:44
Thou hast covered Thyself with a cloud, So that prayer doth not pass through.
Young's Literal Translation
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 dost pursue us; Thou hast slain — Thou hast not pitied.
45Offscouring and refuse Thou dost make us In the midst of the peoples.
Cross References
Psalms 80:5Thou hast caused them to eat bread of tears, And causest them to drink With tears a third time.
Jeremiah 14:11And Jehovah saith unto me: Thou dost not pray for this people for good,
Lamentations 2:1How doth the Lord cloud in His anger the daughter of Zion, He hath cast from heaven [to] earth the beauty of Israel, And hath not remembered His footstool in the day of His anger.
Zechariah 7:13And it cometh to pass, as He called, And they have not hearkened, So do they call, and I do not hearken, Said Jehovah 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 →