Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.
WEB
You have covered Yourself with a cloud that no prayer can pass through.
YLT
Thou hast covered Thyself with a cloud, So that prayer doth not pass through.
DBT
Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that prayer should not pass through.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentLamentations — Five poems over the ruin of Jerusalem. The first four are alphabetic acrostics — every letter of the Hebrew alphabet drafted to hold the weight of grief. At the book's centre, mercy renewed every morning.
- Author
- Traditionally Jeremiah (cf. 2 Chron 35:25); the book itself is anonymous
- Date
- Shortly after Jerusalem's fall, c. 586 BC