Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
Even when I send up a cry for help, he keeps my prayer shut out.
New American Standard Bible
He
King James Version
Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
Holman Bible
He rejects my prayer.
International Standard Version
Indeed, when I cry out, calling for help, he shuts out my prayer.
A Conservative Version
Yea, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.
American Standard Version
Yea, when I cry, and call for help, he shutteth out my prayer.
Amplified
Even when I cry out and shout for help,
He shuts out my prayer.
Darby Translation
Even when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
Julia Smith Translation
Also when I shall exclaim and cry out, he stopped my prayer.
King James 2000
Also when I cry and shout, he shuts out my prayer.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Though I cry out for help, he shuts out my prayers.
Modern King James verseion
Also when I cry and shout, He shuts out my prayer.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Though I cry and call piteously, yet heareth he not my prayer.
NET Bible
Also, when I cry out desperately for help, he has shut out my prayer.
New Heart English Bible
Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.
The Emphasized Bible
Yea, when I make outcry and implore, he hath shut out my prayer;
Webster
Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
World English Bible
Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.
Youngs Literal Translation
Also when I call and cry out, He hath shut out my prayer.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Lamentations 3:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel's Affliction
7 He has put a wall round me, so that I am not able to go out; he has made great the weight of my chain. 8 Even when I send up a cry for help, he keeps my prayer shut out. 9 He has put up a wall of cut stones about my ways, he has made my roads twisted.
Phrases
Cross References
Job 30:20
You give no answer to my cry, and take no note of my prayer.
Psalm 22:2
O my God, I make my cry in the day, and you give no answer; and in the night, and have no rest.
Job 19:7
Truly, I make an outcry against the violent man, but there is no answer: I give a cry for help, but no one takes up my cause.
Psalm 80:4
O Lord God of armies, how long will your wrath be burning against the rest of your people?
Lamentations 3:44
Covering yourself with a cloud, so that prayer may not get through.
Habakkuk 1:2
How long, O Lord, will your ears be shut to my voice? I make an outcry to you about violent behaviour, but you do not send salvation.
Matthew 27:46
And about the ninth hour Jesus gave a loud cry, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is, My God, my God, why are you turned away from me?