Lamentations 3:8
Good News Translation
I cry aloud for help, but God refuses to listen;

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

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

New American Bible
Even when I cry for help, he stops my prayer;

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

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Ghimel. Yea, and when I cry, and entreat, he hath shut out my prayer.

Lamentations 3:44 Samech. Thou hast set a cloud before thee, that our prayer may not pass through.

Job 19:7 Behold I shall cry suffering violence, and no one will hear: I shall cry aloud, and there is none to judge.

Job 30:20 I cry to thee, and thou hearest me not: I stand up, and thou dost not regard me.

Psalm 22:2 O my God, I shall cry by day, and thou wilt not hear: and by night, and it shall not be reputed as folly in me.

Psalm 80:4 O Lord God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy servant?

Habakkuk 1:2 How long, O Lord, shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear? shall I cry out to thee suffering violence, and thou wilt not save?

Matthew 27:46 And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying: Eli, Eli, lamma sabacthani? That is, My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me?

Context
Jeremiah's Afflictions
7Ghimel. He hath built against me round about, that I may not get out: he hath made my fetters heavy. 8Ghimel. Yea, and when I cry, and entreat, he hath shut out my prayer.9Ghimel. He hath shut up my ways with square stones, he hath turned my paths upside down.…
Cross References
Job 30:20
I cry to thee, and thou hearest me not: I stand up, and thou dost not regard me.

Psalm 22:2
O my God, I shall cry by day, and thou wilt not hear: and by night, and it shall not be reputed as folly in me.

Lamentations 3:44
Samech. Thou hast set a cloud before thee, that our prayer may not pass through.

Lamentations 3:7
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