Lectionary Calendar
Thursday, September 18th, 2025
the Week of Proper 19 / Ordinary 24
the Week of Proper 19 / Ordinary 24
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English Standard Version
Lamentations 3:8
though I call and cry for help, he shuts out my prayer;
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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.
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.
Bible in Basic English
Even when I send up a cry for help, he keeps my prayer shut out.
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.
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 affliction under the rod of his wrath; 2 he has driven and brought me into darkness without any light; 3 surely against me he turns his hand again and again the whole day long. 4 He has made my flesh and my skin waste away; he has broken my bones; 5 he has besieged and enveloped me with bitterness and tribulation; 6 he has made me dwell in darkness like the dead of long ago. 7 He has walled me about so that I cannot escape; he has made my chains heavy; 8 though I call and cry for help, he shuts out my prayer; 9 he has blocked my ways with blocks of stones; he has made my paths crooked. 10 He is a bear lying in wait for me, 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 other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden'?"
Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden'?"
Genesis 3:2
And the woman said to the serpent, "We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden,
And the woman said to the serpent, "We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden,
Genesis 3:3
but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.'"
but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.'"
Genesis 3:9
But the Lord God called to the man and said to him, "Where are you?"
But the Lord God called to the man and said to him, "Where are you?"
Genesis 3:10
And he said, "I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself."
And he said, "I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself."
Genesis 3:12
The man said, "The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate."
The man said, "The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate."
Genesis 3:21
And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them.
And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them.
Genesis 3:22
Then the Lord God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever—"
Then the Lord God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever—"
Deuteronomy 4:33
Did any people ever hear the voice of a god speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and still live?
Did any people ever hear the voice of a god speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and still live?
Deuteronomy 5:25
Now therefore why should we die? For this great fire will consume us. If we hear the voice of the Lord our God any more, we shall die.
Now therefore why should we die? For this great fire will consume us. If we hear the voice of the Lord our God any more, we shall die.
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.
