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Lamentations 3:8
Lamentations 3:8 is verse 8 of Lamentations chapter 3, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer.
King James Version
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.
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Lamentations 3:6–10 · Berean Standard Bible
6 He has made me dwell in darkness like those dead for ages.
7 He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed me down with chains.
8 Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer.
9 He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked.
10 He is a bear lying in wait, a lion hiding in ambush.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Lamentations 3:44You have covered Yourself with a cloud that no prayer can pass through.
Job 19:7Though I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice.
Job 30:20I cry out to You for help, but You do not answer; when I stand up, You merely look at me.
Psalms 22:2I cry out by day, O my God, but You do not answer, and by night, but I have no rest.
Psalms 80:4O LORD God of Hosts, how long will Your anger smolder against the prayers of Your people?
Habakkuk 1:2How long, O LORD, must I call for help but You do not hear, or cry out to You, “Violence!” but You do not save?
Matthew 27:46About the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”