Lamentations 3:8

Myles Coverdale Bible

Though I crie & call piteously, yet heareth he not my prayer.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Even when I cry out and plead for help,he blocks out my prayer.

Hebrew Names Version
Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.

King James Version
Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.

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

New American Standard Bible
Even when I cry out and call for help, He shuts out my prayer.

New Century Version
I cry out and beg for help, but he ignores my prayer.

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

World English Bible
Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Also when I cry and showte, hee shutteth out my prayer.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Even when I cry out and call for help, He shuts out my prayer.

Legacy Standard Bible
Even when I cry out and call for help,He shuts out my prayer.

Berean Standard Bible
Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer.

Contemporary English Version
Even when I shouted and prayed for help, he refused to listen.

Complete Jewish Bible
Even when I cry out, pleading for help, he shuts out my prayer.

Darby Translation
Even when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.

Easy-to-Read Version
Even when I cry out and ask for help, he does not listen to my prayer.

George Lamsa Translation
Though I beseech and pray, he does not hearken to my prayer.

Good News Translation
I cry aloud for help, but God refuses to listen;

Lexham English Bible
Though I cry out for help, he shuts out my prayers.

Literal Translation
Also, when I cry out and shout for help, He shuts out my prayer.

American Standard Version
Yea, when I cry, and call for help, he shutteth out my prayer.

Bible in Basic English
Even when I send up a cry for help, he keeps my prayer shut out.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Yea, when I cry and call for help, He shutteth out my prayer.

King James Version (1611)
Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Though I crye and call pitiously, yet heareth he not my prayer.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
GIMEL. Yea, though I cry and shout, he shuts out my prayer.

English Revised Version
Yea, when I cry and call for help, he shutteth out my prayer.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Gymel. But and whanne Y crie and preye, he hath excludid my preier.

Update Bible Version
Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.

Webster's Bible Translation
Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.

New English Translation
Also, when I cry out desperately for help, he has shut out my prayer.

New King James Version
Even when I cry and shout, He shuts out my prayer.

New Living Translation
And though I cry and shout, he has shut out my prayers.

New Life Bible
Even when I cry and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.

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

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Yea, when I make outcry and implore, he hath shut out my prayer;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Ghimel. Yea, and when I cry, and entreat, he hath shut out my prayer.

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

Young's Literal Translation
Also when I call and cry out, He hath shut out my prayer.

Contextual Overview

¹ I am the ma, that (thorow the rodd of his wrath) haue experiece of misery. ² He droue me forth, and led me: yee into darcknesse, but not in to light. ³ Agaynst me only he turneth his honde, & layeth it euer vpon me. ⁴ My flesh & my skynne hath he made olde, and my bones hath he brussed. ⁵ He hath buylded rounde aboute me, & closed me in with gall and trauayle. ⁶ He hath set me in darcknesse, as they that be deed for euer. ⁷ He hath so hedged me in, that I can not get out, & hath layed heuy lynckes vpon me. ⁸ Though I crie & call piteously, yet heareth he not my prayer. ⁹ He hath stopped vp my wayes with foure squared stones, & made my pathes croked. ¹⁰ He layeth waite for me like a Bere, and as a lyon in a hole.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Lamentations 3:44, Job 19:7, Job 30:20, Psalms 22:2, Psalms 80:4, Habakkuk 1:2, Matthew 27:46

Reciprocal: Exodus 11:6 - General Nehemiah 9:4 - cried Job 3:24 - my roarings Psalms 32:3 - roaring Psalms 55:1 - hide Psalms 55:17 - cry Psalms 88:2 - General Psalms 102:1 - let my Song of Solomon 5:6 - I sought Matthew 15:23 - General Mark 4:38 - carest Luke 11:10 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 3:1
Bvt the serpent was sotyller then all the beastes of the felde (which ye LORDE God had made) and sayde vnto the woman: Yee, hath God sayde indede: Ye shall not eate of all maner trees in the garden?

Genesis 3:2
Then sayde the woman vnto the serpent: We eate of the frute of the trees in the garden:

Genesis 3:3
But as for the frute of the tre that is in the myddes of the garden, God hath sayde: Eate not ye of it, and touch it not, lest ye dye.

Genesis 3:9
And ye LORDE God called Adam, and sayde vnto him: Where art thou?

Genesis 3:10
And he saide: I herde thy voyce in the garden, and was afrayed, because I am naked, and therfore I hyd my self.

Genesis 3:12
Then sayde Adam: The woman which thou gauest me (to beare me company) gaue me of the tre, and I ate.

Genesis 3:21
And the LORDE God made Adam & his wyfe garmentes of skynnes, & those he put on them.

Genesis 3:22
And the LORDE God sayde: lo, Adam is become as it were one of vs, & knoweth good & euell. But now lest he stretch his hande, and take also of the tre of life, and eate, and lyue for euer.

Deuteronomy 4:33
that a people hath herde ye voyce of God speake out of the fyre (as thou hast herde) & yet liued.

Deuteronomy 5:25
And now wherfore shulde we dye, that this fire shulde cosume vs? Yf we shulde heare the voyce of the LORDE oure God eny more, we shulde dye.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Shout - i. e. call for help.

Shutteth out - Or, “shutteth in.” God has so closed up the avenues to the place in which he is immured, that his voice can find no egress.