Lamentations 3:8 “Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer.”

Lamentations 3:8

Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.

American Standard Version

Yea, when I cry, and call for help, he shutteth out my prayer.

Geneva Bible 1599

Also when I cry and showte, hee shutteth out my prayer.

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

Also when I call and cry out, He hath shut out my prayer.

Bible in Basic English

Even when I send up a cry for help, he keeps my prayer shut out.

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Cross references

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

Job 30:20 Psalm 22:2 Job 19:7 Lamentations 3:44 Matthew 27:46 Habakkuk 1:2

Job 30:20 · BSB

I cry out to You for help, but You do not answer; when I stand up, You merely look at me.

Psalm 22:2 · BSB

I cry out by day, O my God, but You do not answer, and by night, but I have no rest.

Job 19:7 · BSB

Though I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice.

Lamentations 3:44 · BSB

You have covered Yourself with a cloud that no prayer can pass through.

Matthew 27:46 · BSB

About the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”

Habakkuk 1:2 · BSB

How long, O LORD, must I call for help but You do not hear, or cry out to You, “Violence!” but You do not save?

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

7He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed me down with chains.

9He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked.

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