Lamentations 3:44

World English Bible (2000)

You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.

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Referenced Verses

  • Lam 3:8 : 8 Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.
  • Zech 7:13 : 13 It has come to pass that, as he called, and they refused to listen, so they will call, and I will not listen," said Yahweh of Armies;
  • Ps 97:2 : 2 Clouds and darkness are around him. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.
  • Jer 15:1 : 1 Then Yahweh said to me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind would not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.
  • Jer 14:11 : 11 Yahweh said to me, Don't pray for this people for [their] good.
  • Ps 80:4 : 4 Yahweh God of Armies, How long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?

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  • Lam 3:42-43
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    42We have transgressed and have rebelled; you have not pardoned.

    43You have covered with anger and pursued us; you have killed, you have not pitied.

  • 45You have made us an off-scouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.

  • 19Though you have crushed us in the haunt of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.

  • 4Yes, you do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God.

  • Ps 44:9-10
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    9But now you rejected us, and brought us to dishonor, and don't go out with our armies.

    10You make us turn back from the adversary. Those who hate us take spoil for themselves.

  • 24Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?

  • 34"Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover you?

  • Job 22:13-14
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    13You say, 'What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?

    14Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he doesn't see. He walks on the vault of the sky.'

  • 11or darkness, so that you can not see, and floods of waters cover you.

  • 7There is none who calls on your name, who stirs up himself to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have consumed us by means of our iniquities.

  • 4Yahweh God of Armies, How long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?

  • 9He encloses the face of his throne, and spreads his cloud on it.

  • 32He covers his hands with the lightning, and commands it to strike the mark.

  • 3Sins overwhelmed me, but you atoned for our transgressions.

  • 22But you have utterly rejected us; You are very angry against us.

  • 8You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.

  • Ps 89:44-46
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    44You have ended his splendor, and thrown his throne down to the ground.

    45You have shortened the days of his youth. You have covered him with shame. Selah.

    46How long, Yahweh? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath burn like fire?

  • 24Why hide you your face, and hold me for your enemy?

  • 2but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.

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

  • 1God, you have rejected us. You have broken us down. You have been angry. Restore us, again.

  • 4For you have hidden their heart from understanding, Therefore you shall not exalt them.

  • 15When you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.

  • 2He covers himself with light as with a garment. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain.

  • 13This again you do: you cover the altar of Yahweh with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, because he doesn't regard the offering any more, neither receives it with good will at your hand.

  • 13You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are around us.

  • 27Why do you say, Jacob, and speak, Israel, "My way is hidden from Yahweh, and the justice due me is disregarded by my God?"

  • Ps 89:38-39
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    38But you have rejected and spurned. You have been angry with your anointed.

    39You have renounced the covenant of your servant. You have defiled his crown in the dust.

  • Ps 44:16-17
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    16At the taunt of one who reproaches and verbally abuses, because of the enemy and the avenger.

    17All this has come on us, yet have we not forgotten you, Neither have we been false to your covenant.

  • 3Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain; yet you have a prostitute's forehead, you refused to be ashamed.

  • 1Why do you stand far off, Yahweh? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?

  • 35"When the sky is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against you; if they pray toward this place, and confess your name, and turn from their sin, when you afflict them:

  • 12Will you refrain yourself for these things, Yahweh? Will you hold your peace, and afflict us very severely?

  • 8He has walled up my way so that I can't pass, and has set darkness in my paths.

  • 21You have turned to be cruel to me. With the might of your hand you persecute me.

  • 13But to you, Yahweh, I have cried. In the morning, my prayer comes before you.

  • 3You have taken away all your wrath. You have turned from the fierceness of your anger.

  • 22Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? or can the sky give showers? Aren't you he, Yahweh our God? therefore we will wait for you; for you have made all these things.

  • 12You marched through the land in wrath. You threshed the nations in anger.

  • 26"When the sky is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against you; if they pray toward this place, and confess your name, and turn from their sin, when you afflict them:

  • 1Yahweh, don't rebuke me in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.

  • 17and the anger of Yahweh be kindled against you, and he shut up the sky, so that there shall be no rain, and the land shall not yield its fruit; and you perish quickly from off the good land which Yahweh gives you.

  • 20We acknowledge, Yahweh, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against you.