Lamentations 3:44
in Lamentations 3You have covered Yourself with a cloud that no prayer can pass through.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.
KJV
Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.
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This verse in Lamentations 3
Commentary
3 notes on this verseSecond, is a refusal from prayer of a person sinning. "Thou hast wrapped thyself with a cloud so that no prayer can pass through." Namely, regarding such sins displaying faults against prayer. Thus, Isaiah 59:2 claims: "But your iniquities have made a separation between you …
This site's exposition
Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us
on Lamentations 3:43-51
Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied returns to the register of the first two chapters, the corporate voice now describing what the man described of himself. Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through names the hardest complaint of the unit, prayer itself apparently blocked, and thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people states the community's status among the nations in the plainest terms the book uses. The unit closes where much of the book closes, mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people, weeping continuing till the Lord look down, and behold from heaven, grief that keeps speaking rather than resolving into silence.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
"This cloud is so thick that our prayers seem as if they were lost in it; they cannot pass through; we cannot obtain an audience." Note, The prolonging of troubles is sometimes a temptation, even to praying people, to question whether God be what they have always believed him to be, a prayer-hearing God.
The words behind it
5 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| סַכּ֤וֹתָה | sakotah | you have covered | H5526 → | |
| בֶֽעָנָן֙ | veanan | with <the> cloud | H6051 → | |
| לָ֔ךְ | lakh | <to> yourself | ||
| מֵעֲב֖וֹר | meavor | from passing through | H5674 → | 556 times |
| תְּפִלָּֽה׃ | tefilah | prayer of | H8605 → |
סַכּ֤וֹתָהyou have covered
sakotahH5526 →
בֶֽעָנָן֙with <the> cloud
veananH6051 →
לָ֔ךְ<to> yourself
lakh
מֵעֲב֖וֹרfrom passing through
meavorH5674 →556 times
תְּפִלָּֽה׃prayer of
tefilahH8605 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Jeremiah 15:1Then the LORD said to me: “Even if Moses and Samuel should stand before Me, My heart would not go out to this people. Send them from My presence, and let them go.
it leads to
- Jeremiah 11:14
As for you, do not pray for these people. Do not raise up a cry or a prayer on their behalf, for I will not be listening when they call out to Me in…
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Ezekiel 14:14
then even if these three men—Noah, Daniel, and Job—were in it, their righteousness could deliver only themselves, declares the Lord GOD.
- Ezekiel 14:20–21
then as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, they could not deliver their own sons or daughters. Their righteousness could deliver only themselves.
- Jeremiah 14:11
Then the LORD said to me, “Do not pray for the well-being of this people.
- Psalms 106:23
So He said He would destroy them— had not Moses His chosen one stood before Him in the breach to divert His wrath from destroying them.
- Jeremiah 11:14
Through
Psalms 97:2Clouds and darkness surround Him; righteousness and justice are His throne’s foundation.
it leads to
- Psalms 89:14
Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne; loving devotion and faithfulness go before You.
- Psalms 89:14
Through
Zechariah 7:13And just as I had called and they would not listen, so when they called I would not listen, says the LORD of Hosts.
it leads to
- Proverbs 1:24–28
Because you refused my call, and no one took my outstretched hand,
- Proverbs 1:24–28
Through
Jeremiah 14:11Then the LORD said to me, “Do not pray for the well-being of this people.
it leads to
- Jeremiah 7:16
As for you, do not pray for these people, do not offer a plea or petition on their behalf, and do not beg Me, for I will not listen to you.
- Jeremiah 7:16
Where this verse is studied
About Lamentations
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Carl Friedrich Keil, Lamentations; Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Lamentations.