Lamentations 3:44

The Scriptures 1998

You have wrapped Yourself With a cloud, so that prayer does not pass through.

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O יהוה Elohim of hosts, How long shall You be wroth Against the prayer of Your people?

You have caused them to eat the bread of tears, And have caused them to drink With tears, a third time.

Clouds and darkness all around Him, Righteousness and right-ruling are the foundation of His throne.

And יהוה said to me, “Do not pray for this people for their good.

And יהוה said to me, “Even if Mosheh and Shemu’ĕ

How יהוה in His displeasure Has covered the daughter of Tsiyon with a cloud! He has cast down from the heavens to the earth The comeliness of Yisra’ĕ

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

“And it came to be: as He called and they did not hear, so let them call, but I shall not hear,” said יהוה of hosts.