Lamentations 3:8

Bishop's Bible

Though I crye and call pitiously, yet heareth he not my prayer.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
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.

King James Version
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;

New American Standard Bible
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.

Amplified Bible
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.

Geneva Bible (1587)
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.

Legacy Standard Bible
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.

Contemporary English Version
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.

Darby Translation
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.

George Lamsa Translation
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;

Lexham English Bible
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.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
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.

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

JPS Old Testament (1917)
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.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
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.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
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.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

New King James Version
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.

New Life Bible
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;

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
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.

Revised Standard Version
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.

Contextual Overview

¹ I am the man that thorowe the rodde of his wrath haue experience of miserie. ² He droue me foorth and led me, yea into darknesse, but not into light. ³ Against me is he turned, he turneth his hande dayly against me. ⁴ My flesh and my skinne hath he made olde, and my bones hath he bruised. ⁵ He hath buylded rounde about me, and closed me in with gall and trauaile. ⁶ He hath set me in darknesse, as they that be dead for euer. ⁷ He hath so hedged me in, that I can not get out, and hath layde heauie linkes vpon me. ⁸ Though I crye and call pitiously, yet heareth he not my prayer. ⁹ He hath stopped vp my wayes with foure squared stones, and made my pathes crooked. ¹⁰ He layeth wayte for me lyke a beare, and as a lion in a hole.

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
And the serpent was suttiller then euery beast of the fielde which ye lord God hadde made, and he sayde vnto the woman: yea, hath God saide, ye shall not eate of euery tree of the garden?

Genesis 3:2
And the woman sayde vnto the serpent: We eate of ye fruite of the trees of the garden.

Genesis 3:3
But as for the fruite of the tree which is in the myddes of the garden, God hath sayde, ye shall not eate of it, neither shal ye touche of it, lest peraduenture ye dye.

Genesis 3:9
And the Lorde called Adam, & sayde vnto hym: where art thou?

Genesis 3:10
Which sayde: I hearde thy voyce in the garden, and was afrayde because I was naked, and hyd my selfe.

Genesis 3:12
And Adam said: The woman whom thou gauest [to be] with me, she gaue me of the tree, and I dyd eate.

Genesis 3:21
Unto Adam also and to his wyfe dyd the Lorde God make garments of skynnes, and he put them on.

Genesis 3:22
And the Lorde God sayde: Beholde, the man is become as one of vs, in knowing good and euyll: And now lest peraduenture he put foorth his hande, and take also of the tree of lyfe and eate, and lyue for euer.

Deuteronomy 4:33
Dyd euer any people heare the voyce of God speakyng out of the middes of a fire, as thou hast hearde, and yet lyued?

Deuteronomy 5:25
Nowe therfore why shoulde we dye? that this great fire shoulde consume vs: If we heare the voyce of the Lord our God any more, we shall dye:

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.