Lamentations 3:44 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

thou hast wrapped thyself with a cloud so that no prayer can pass through.

More versions

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 wilt thou be angry with thy people's prayers?

Psalm 80:5

Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in full measure.

Psalm 97:2

Clouds and thick darkness are round about 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 set the daughter of Zion under a cloud! He has cast 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

“As I called, and they would not hear, so they called, and I would not hear,” says the Lord of hosts,