Parallel Verses
New Heart English Bible
Yes, when I cry, and call 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.
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.
NET Bible
Also, when I cry out desperately for help, he has shut 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 walled me in, so I can't escape; he has made my chains heavy. 8 Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer. 9 He has walled up my ways with cut stone; he has made my paths crooked.
Phrases
Cross References
Job 30:20
I cry to you, and you do not answer me. I stand up, and you gaze at me.
Psalm 22:2
My God, I cry in the daytime, but you do not answer; in the night season, and am not silent.
Job 19:7
"Behold, I cry out 'Injustice.' but there is no justice.
Psalm 80:4
LORD God of Hosts, How long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?
Lamentations 3:44
You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.
Habakkuk 1:2
LORD, how long will I cry, and you will not hear? I cry out to you "Violence." and will you not save?
Matthew 27:46
About the ninth hour Jesus called out with a loud voice, saying, "Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?" That is, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"