Lamentations 3:8

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 30:20 : 20 I cry out to you, but you do not answer me; I stand up, and you only look at me.
  • Ps 22:2 : 2 My God, I cry out during the day, but you do not answer, and during the night my prayers do not let up.
  • Job 19:7 : 7 Job’s Abandonment and Affliction“If I cry out,‘Violence!’ I receive no answer; I cry for help, but there is no justice.
  • Ps 80:4 : 4 O LORD God of Heaven’s Armies! How long will you remain angry at your people while they pray to you?
  • Lam 3:44 : 44 You shrouded yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can get through.
  • Hab 1:2 : 2 How long, LORD, must I cry for help? But you do not listen! I call out to you,“Violence!” But you do not deliver!
  • Matt 27:46 : 46 At about three o’clock Jesus shouted with a loud voice,“Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” that is,“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

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