Lamentations 3:8

New King James Version

Even when I cry and shout, 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.

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.

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 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 who has seen affliction by the rod of His wrath. ² He has led me and made me walk In darkness and not in light. ³ Surely He has turned His hand against me Time and time again throughout the day. ⁴ He has aged my flesh and my skin, And broken my bones. ⁵ He has besieged me And surrounded me with bitterness and woe. ⁶ He has set me in dark places Like the dead of long ago. ⁷ He has hedged me in so that I cannot get out; He has made my chain heavy. ⁸ Even when I cry and shout, He shuts out my prayer. ⁹ He has blocked my ways with hewn stone; He has made my paths crooked. ¹⁰ He has been to me a bear lying in wait, Like a lion in ambush.

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
Romans 5:12-21">[xr] Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, "Has God indeed said, "You shall not eat of every tree of the garden'?"

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

Genesis 3:3
but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, "You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die."'

Genesis 3:9
Then the LORD God called to Adam and said to him, "Where are you?"

Genesis 3:10
So he said, "I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself."

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

Genesis 3:21
Also for Adam and his wife the LORD God made tunics of skin, and clothed them.

Genesis 3:22
Then the LORD God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put 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 God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and 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 anymore, then 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.