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the Week of Proper 15 / Ordinary 20
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Lamentations 3:8
Even when I send up a cry for help, he keeps my prayer shut out.
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Christian Standard Bible®
Even when I cry out and plead for help,he blocks out my prayer.
Even when I cry out and plead for help,he blocks out my prayer.
Hebrew Names Version
Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.
Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.
King James Version
Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
English Standard Version
though I call and cry for help, he shuts out my prayer;
though I call and cry for help, he shuts out my prayer;
New American Standard Bible
Even when I cry out and call for help, He shuts out my prayer.
Even when I cry out and call for help, He shuts out my prayer.
New Century Version
I cry out and beg for help, but he ignores my prayer.
I cry out and beg for help, but he ignores my prayer.
Amplified Bible
Even when I cry out and shout for help, He shuts out my prayer.
Even when I cry out and shout for help, He shuts out my prayer.
World English Bible
Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.
Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Also when I cry and showte, hee shutteth out my prayer.
Also when I cry and showte, hee shutteth out my prayer.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Even when I cry out and call for help, He shuts out my prayer.
Even when I cry out and call for help, He shuts out my prayer.
Legacy Standard Bible
Even when I cry out and call for help,He shuts out my prayer.
Even when I cry out and call for help,He shuts out my prayer.
Berean Standard Bible
Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer.
Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer.
Contemporary English Version
Even when I shouted and prayed for help, he refused to listen.
Even when I shouted and prayed for help, he refused to listen.
Complete Jewish Bible
Even when I cry out, pleading for help, he shuts out my prayer.
Even when I cry out, pleading for help, he shuts out my prayer.
Darby Translation
Even when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
Even when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
Easy-to-Read Version
Even when I cry out and ask for help, he does not listen to my prayer.
Even when I cry out and ask for help, he does not listen to my prayer.
George Lamsa Translation
Though I beseech and pray, he does not hearken to my prayer.
Though I beseech and pray, he does not hearken to my prayer.
Good News Translation
I cry aloud for help, but God refuses to listen;
I cry aloud for help, but God refuses to listen;
Lexham English Bible
Though I cry out for help, he shuts out my prayers.
Though I cry out for help, he shuts out my prayers.
Literal Translation
Also, when I cry out and shout for help, He shuts out my prayer.
Also, when I cry out and shout for help, He shuts out my prayer.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Though I crie & call piteously, yet heareth he not my prayer.
Though I crie & call piteously, yet heareth he not my prayer.
American Standard Version
Yea, when I cry, and call for help, he shutteth out my prayer.
Yea, when I cry, and call for help, he shutteth out my prayer.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Yea, when I cry and call for help, He shutteth out my prayer.
Yea, when I cry and call for help, He shutteth out my prayer.
King James Version (1611)
Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Though I crye and call pitiously, yet heareth he not my prayer.
Though I crye and call pitiously, yet heareth he not my prayer.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
GIMEL. Yea, though I cry and shout, he shuts out my prayer.
GIMEL. Yea, though I cry and shout, he shuts out my prayer.
English Revised Version
Yea, when I cry and call for help, he shutteth out my prayer.
Yea, when I cry and call for help, he shutteth out my prayer.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Gymel. But and whanne Y crie and preye, he hath excludid my preier.
Gymel. But and whanne Y crie and preye, he hath excludid my preier.
Update Bible Version
Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.
Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.
Webster's Bible Translation
Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
New English Translation
Also, when I cry out desperately for help, he has shut out my prayer.
Also, when I cry out desperately for help, he has shut out my prayer.
New King James Version
Even when I cry and shout, He shuts out my prayer.
Even when I cry and shout, He shuts out my prayer.
New Living Translation
And though I cry and shout, he has shut out my prayers.
And though I cry and shout, he has shut out my prayers.
New Life Bible
Even when I cry and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.
Even when I cry and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.
New Revised Standard
though I call and cry for help, he shuts out my prayer;
though I call and cry for help, he shuts out my prayer;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Yea, when I make outcry and implore, he hath shut out my prayer;
Yea, when I make outcry and implore, he hath shut out my prayer;
Douay-Rheims Bible
Ghimel. Yea, and when I cry, and entreat, he hath shut out my prayer.
Ghimel. Yea, and when I cry, and entreat, he hath shut out my prayer.
Revised Standard Version
though I call and cry for help, he shuts out my prayer;
though I call and cry for help, he shuts out my prayer;
Young's Literal Translation
Also when I call and cry out, He hath shut out my prayer.
Also when I call and cry out, He hath shut out my prayer.
Contextual Overview
1 I am the man who has seen trouble by the rod of his wrath. 2 By him I have been made to go in the dark where there is no light. 3 Truly against me his hand has been turned again and again all the day. 4 My flesh and my skin have been used up by him and my bones broken. 5 He has put up a wall against me, shutting me in with bitter sorrow. 6 He has kept me in dark places, like those who have been long dead. 7 He has put a wall round me, so that I am not able to go out; he has made great the weight of my chain. 8 Even when I send up a cry for help, he keeps my prayer shut out. 9 He has put up a wall of cut stones about my ways, he has made my roads twisted. 10 He is like a bear waiting for me, like a lion in secret places.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Lamentations 3:44, Job 19:7, Job 30:20, Psalms 22:2, Psalms 80:4, Habakkuk 1:2, Matthew 27:46
Reciprocal: Exodus 11:6 - General Nehemiah 9:4 - cried Job 3:24 - my roarings Psalms 32:3 - roaring Psalms 55:1 - hide Psalms 55:17 - cry Psalms 88:2 - General Psalms 102:1 - let my Song of Solomon 5:6 - I sought Matthew 15:23 - General Mark 4:38 - carest Luke 11:10 - General
Cross-References
Genesis 3:1
Now the snake was wiser than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, Has God truly said that you may not take of the fruit of any tree in the garden?
Now the snake was wiser than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, Has God truly said that you may not take of the fruit of any tree in the garden?
Genesis 3:2
And the woman said, We may take of the fruit of the trees in the garden:
And the woman said, We may take of the fruit of the trees in the garden:
Genesis 3:3
But of the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God has said, If you take of it or put your hands on it, death will come to you.
But of the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God has said, If you take of it or put your hands on it, death will come to you.
Genesis 3:9
And the voice of the Lord God came to the man, saying, Where are you?
And the voice of the Lord God came to the man, saying, Where are you?
Genesis 3:10
And he said, Hearing your voice in the garden I was full of fear, because I was without clothing: and I kept myself from your eyes.
And he said, Hearing your voice in the garden I was full of fear, because I was without clothing: and I kept myself from your eyes.
Genesis 3:12
And the man said, The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me the fruit of the tree and I took it.
And the man said, The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me the fruit of the tree and I took it.
Genesis 3:21
And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife coats of skins for their clothing.
And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife coats of skins for their clothing.
Genesis 3:22
And the Lord God said, Now the man has become like one of us, having knowledge of good and evil; and now if he puts out his hand and takes of the fruit of the tree of life, he will go on living for ever.
And the Lord God said, Now the man has become like one of us, having knowledge of good and evil; and now if he puts out his hand and takes of the fruit of the tree of life, he will go on living for ever.
Deuteronomy 4:33
Has any people ever gone on living after hearing the voice of God out of the heart of the fire as you did?
Has any people ever gone on living after hearing the voice of God out of the heart of the fire as you did?
Deuteronomy 5:25
Why then is death to be our fate? For if the voice of the Lord our God comes to us any more, death will overtake us, and we will be burned up in this great fire.
Why then is death to be our fate? For if the voice of the Lord our God comes to us any more, death will overtake us, and we will be burned up in this great fire.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Also when I cry and shout,.... Cry, because of the distress of the enemy within; "shout", or cry aloud for help from others without; as persons in a prison do, to make them hear and pity their case: thus the prophet in his affliction cried aloud to God; was fervent, earnest, and importunate in prayer; and yet not heard:
he shutteth out my prayer; shuts the door, that it may not enter; as the door is sometimes shut upon beggars, that their cry may not be heard. The Targum is,
"the house of my prayer is shut.''
Jarchi interprets it of the windows of the firmament being shut, so that his prayer could not pass through, or be heard; see Lamentations 3:44. The phrase designs God's disregard, or seeming disregard, of the prayer of the prophet, or of the people; and his shutting his ears against it. Of this, as the Messiah's case, see Psalms 22:2.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Shout - i. e. call for help.
Shutteth out - Or, “shutteth in.” God has so closed up the avenues to the place in which he is immured, that his voice can find no egress.
