Lamentations 3:44 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

you have wrapped yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can pass through.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, That our prayer should not pass through.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

You have covered Yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can pass through.

American Standard Version (1901)

Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.

Common English Bible

You wrapped yourself up in a cloud; prayers can’t make it through!

Catholic Public Domain Version

SAMECH. You have set a cloud opposite you, lest our prayer pass through.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Samech. Thou hast set a cloud before thee, that our prayer may not pass through.

Lamentations 3:44 Cross References

Psalm 80:4

O Lord God of hosts, how long will you be angry with your people’s prayers?

Psalm 80:5

You have fed them with the bread of tears and given them tears to drink in full measure.

Psalm 97:2

Clouds and thick darkness are all around him; righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.

Jeremiah 14:11

The Lord said to me: Do not pray for the welfare of this people.

Jeremiah 15:1

Then the Lord said to me: Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my heart would not turn toward this people. Send them out of my sight, and let them go!

Lamentations 2:1

How the Lord in his anger has humiliated daughter Zion! He has thrown down from heaven to earth the splendor of Israel; he has not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.

Lamentations 3:8

though I call and cry for help, he shuts out my prayer;

Zechariah 7:13

Just as, when I called, they would not hear, so, when they called, I would not hear, says the Lord of hosts,