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Selected Verse: Lamentations 3:8 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| La 3:8 |
King James |
Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer. |
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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| shutteth out--image from a door shutting out any entrance (Job 30:20). So the antitype. Christ (Psa 22:2). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Shout - i. e. call for help.
Shutteth out - Or, "shutteth in." God has so closed up the avenues to the place in which he is immured, that his voice can find no egress. |
2 O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
20 I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.