Parallel Verses
NET Bible
Also, when I cry out desperately for help, he has shut 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.
Amplified
Even when I cry out and shout for help,
He shuts 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.
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 (Gimel) He has walled me in so that I cannot get out; he has weighted me down with heavy prison chains. 8 Also, when I cry out desperately for help, he has shut out my prayer. 9 He has blocked every road I take with a wall of hewn stones; he has made every path impassable.
Phrases
Cross References
Job 30:20
I cry out to you, but you do not answer me; I stand up, and you only look at me.
Psalm 22:2
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
"If I cry out, 'Violence!' I receive no answer; I cry for help, but there is no justice.
Psalm 80:4
O Lord God, invincible warrior! How long will you remain angry at your people while they pray to you?
Lamentations 3:44
You shrouded yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can get through.
Habakkuk 1:2
How long, Lord, must I cry for help? But you do not listen! I call out to you, "Violence!" But you do not intervene!
Matthew 27:46
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?"