Parallel Verses
Amplified
Even when I cry out and shout for help,
He shuts out my prayer.
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.
Bible in Basic English
Even when I send up a cry for help, he keeps my prayer shut out.
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 walled me in so that I cannot get out;
He has weighted down my chain.
Even when I cry out and shout for help,
He shuts out my prayer.
He has blocked my ways with cut stone;
He has made my paths crooked.
Phrases
Cross References
Job 30:20
“I cry to You for help, [Lord,] but You do not answer me;
I stand up, but You [only] gaze [indifferently] at me.
Psalm 22:2
O my God, I call out by day, but You do not answer;
And by night, but I find no rest nor quiet.
Job 19:7
“Behold, I cry out, ‘Violence!’ but I am not heard;
I shout for help, but there is no justice.
Psalm 80:4
O Lord God of hosts,
How long will You be angry with the prayers of Your people?
Lamentations 3:44
You have covered Yourself with a cloud
So that no prayer can pass through.
Habakkuk 1:2
O Lord, how long will I call for help
And You will not hear?
I cry out to You, “Violence!”
Yet You do not save.
Matthew 27:46
About the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud [agonized] voice,