Lamentations 3:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁸ though I call and cry for help, he shuts out my prayer;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ Also when I cry and shout, He shutteth out my prayer.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ Even when I cry and shout for help, He shuts out my prayer.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ Yea, when I cry, and call for help, he shutteth out my prayer.

Common English Bible

⁸ Even though I call out and cry for help, he silences my prayer.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ GHIMEL. Yet even when I cry out and beg, he excludes my prayer.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ Ghimel. Yea, and when I cry and entreat, he hath shut out my prayer.

Lamentations 3:8 Cross References

Job 19:7

Even when I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I am not answered; I call aloud, but there is no justice.

Job 30:20

I cry to you, and you do not answer me; I stand, and you merely look at me.

Psalm 22:2

O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer; and by night but find no rest.

Psalm 80:4

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

Lamentations 3:43

You have wrapped yourself with anger and pursued us, killing without pity;

Lamentations 3:44

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

Habakkuk 1:2

O Lord, how long shall I cry for help, and you will not listen? Or cry to you “Violence!” and you will not save?

Matthew 27:46

And about three o’clock Jesus cried with a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” that is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

Luke 11:10

For everyone who asks receives, and everyone who searches finds, and for everyone who knocks, the door will be opened.