Lamentations 3:8

Legacy Standard Bible

Even when I cry out and call for help,He shuts out 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.

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.

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 afflictionBecause of the rod of His wrath. ²He has driven me and made me walkIn darkness and not in light. ³Surely against me He has turned His handRepeatedly all the day. ⁴He has caused my flesh and my skin to waste away;He has broken my bones. ⁵He has besieged and encompassed me with gall and hardship. ⁶Dark places He has made me inhabit,Like those who have long been dead. ⁷He has walled me in so that I cannot go out;He has made my chain heavy. ⁸Even when I cry out and call for help,He shuts out my prayer. ⁹He has blocked my ways with cut stone;He has made my paths crooked. ¹⁰He is to me like a bear lying in wait,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 serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field which Yahweh God had made. And he said to the woman, "Indeed, has God said, ‘You shall not eat from any tree of the garden'?"

Genesis 3:2
And the woman said to the serpent, "From the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat;

Genesis 3:3
but from the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God said, ‘You shall not eat from it, and you shall not touch it, lest you die.'"

Genesis 3:9
Yahweh 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; so I hid."

Genesis 3:12
And the man said, "The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave to me from the tree, and I ate."

Genesis 3:21
Then Yahweh God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and He clothed them.

Genesis 3:22
Then Yahweh God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of Us to know good and evil; and now, lest he send forth his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat and live forever"—

Deuteronomy 4:33
Has any people heard the voice of God speaking from the midst of the fire, as you have heard it, and lived?

Deuteronomy 5:25
So now then why should we die? For this great fire will consume us; if we hear the voice of Yahweh our God any longer, then we will 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.