Lamentations 3:8

8 Even when I call out or cry for help, he shuts out my prayer.

Lamentations 3:8 in Other Translations

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

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

8 And though I cry and shout, he has shut out my prayers.

8 Even when I cry out and plead for help, he locks up my prayers and throws away the key.

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

8 Even when I cry and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.

8 Even when I cry out and plead for help, He rejects my prayer.

8 I call out and cry for help. But he won't listen to me when I pray.

Lamentations 3:8 Meaning and Commentary

Lamentations 3:8

Also when I cry and shout
Cry, because of the distress of the enemy within; "shout", or cry aloud for help from others without; as persons in a prison do, to make them hear and pity their case: thus the prophet in his affliction cried aloud to God; was fervent, earnest, and importunate in prayer; and yet not heard: he shutteth out my prayer;
shuts the door, that it may not enter; as the door is sometimes shut upon beggars, that their cry may not be heard. The Targum is,

``the house of my prayer is shut.''

Jarchi interprets it of the windows of the firmament being shut, so that his prayer could not pass through, or be heard; see ( Lamentations 3:44 ) . The phrase designs God's disregard, or seeming disregard, of the prayer of the prophet, or of the people; and his shutting his ears against it. Of this, as the Messiah's case, see ( Psalms 22:2 ) .

Lamentations 3:8 In-Context

6 He has made me dwell in darkness like those long dead.

7 He has walled me in so I cannot escape; he has weighed me down with chains.

8 Even when I call out or cry for help, he shuts out my prayer.

9 He has barred my way with blocks of stone; he has made my paths crooked.

10 Like a bear lying in wait, like a lion in hiding,

Cross References

• 1. Psalms 5:2
• 2. ver 44; S Deuteronomy 1:45; S Job 30:20; Psalms 22:2