Lamentations 3:8

The Passion Translation

Even when I cry for help, he closes his ear to my prayer.

Cross References

Psalm 22:2

Why do you remain distant, refusing to answer my tearful cries in the day and my desperate cries for your help in the night? I can’t stop sobbing. Where are you, my God?

Psalm 80:4

O God, the mighty Commander of Angel Armies, how much longer will you smolder in anger? How much longer will you be disgusted with your people even when they pray?

Lamentations 3:43

“You have blanketed us with your anger and then pursued us, slaughtering without pity.

Lamentations 3:44

You shrouded yourself in a cloud too thick for prayer to pierce.

Matthew 27:46

And at three o’clock Jesus shouted with a mighty voice in Aramaic, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” —that is, “My God, My God, why have you deserted me?”