Lamentations 3:8

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

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

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

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

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?”

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

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

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

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

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