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The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Lamentations 3:8

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Despondency;   Doubting;   Wicked (People);   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Judgments;  

Dictionaries:

- Fausset Bible Dictionary - Lamentations;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Lamentations, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Acrostic;   Lamentations, Book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ear;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Balaam;  

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.
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.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
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.
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

1I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of God's wrath. 2He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness instead of light. 3Indeed, He keeps turning His hand against me all day long. 4He has worn away my flesh and skin; He has shattered my bones. 5He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship. 6He has made me dwell in darkness like those dead for ages. 7He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed me down with chains. 8Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer.9He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked. 10He is a bear lying in wait, a lion in hiding.

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 serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field that the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, "Did God really say, 'You must not eat of any tree in the garden?'"
Genesis 3:2
The woman answered the serpent, "We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden,
Genesis 3:3
but of the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God has said, 'You must not eat of it or touch it, or you will die.'"
Genesis 3:9
So the LORD God called out to the man, "Where are you?"
Genesis 3:10
"I heard Your voice in the garden," he replied, "and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid myself."
Genesis 3:12
And the man answered, "The woman whom You gave me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it."
Genesis 3:21
And the LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.
Genesis 3:22
Then the LORD God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil. And now, lest he reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever..."
Deuteronomy 4:33
Has a people ever heard the voice of God speaking out of the fire, as you have, and lived?
Deuteronomy 5:25
But now, why should we die? For this great fire will consume us, and we will die, if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any longer.

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.


 
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