Lamentations 3:44
 Lamentations 3:44 
New International Version (©2011)
You have covered yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can get through.

New Living Translation (©2007)
You have hidden yourself in a cloud so our prayers cannot reach you.

English Standard Version (©2001)
you have wrapped yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can pass through.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
You have covered Yourself with a cloud So that no prayer can pass through.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
You have covered Yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can pass through.

International Standard Version (©2012)
You covered yourself with a cloud that prayer cannot pierce.

NET Bible (©2006)
You shrouded yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can get through.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
You covered yourself with a cloud so that no prayer could get through it.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
You have covered yourself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.

American King James Version
You have covered yourself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.

American Standard Version
Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Samech. Thou hast set a cloud before thee, that our prayer may not pass through.

Darby Bible Translation
Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that prayer should not pass through.

English Revised Version
Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.

Webster's Bible Translation
Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.

World English Bible
You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.

Young's Literal Translation
Thou hast covered Thyself with a cloud, So that prayer doth not pass through.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

3:42-54 The more the prophet looked on the desolations, the more he was grieved. Here is one word of comfort. While they continued weeping, they continued waiting; and neither did nor would expect relief and succour from any but the Lord.


Pulpit Commentary

Verse 44. - That our prayer should not pass through. So Isaiah 58:4, "Ye do not so fast at this time as to make your voice to be heard on high;" Psalm 55:1, "Hide not. thyself from my supplication."


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud,.... With wrath and anger, as a cloud; he wrapped up himself in thick darkness, so as not to be seen or come at: sin, when it appears not pardoned, is as a cloud between God and his people; and this causes him to show his anger and displeasure; which is the cloud about him, Or the hiding of his face. The Targum is,

"thou hast covered the heavens with the clouds of thy glory:''

that our prayer should not pass through; in such circumstances God seems to his people to be inexorable; and not a God hearing and answering prayer, as he is; as if there was no access unto him, or audience to be had of him, or acceptance of persons and prayers with him; whereas the throne of grace is always open and accessible: and there is a new and living way for believers always to approach unto God in; he is on a mercy seat, ready to receive and hear their prayers.


Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

44. (La 3:8). The "cloud" is our sins, and God's wrath because of them (Isa 44:22; 59:2).


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God's Justice
43You have covered with anger, and persecuted us: you have slain, you have not pitied. 44You have covered yourself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through. 45You have made us as the offscouring and refuse in the middle of the people. …

Psalm 97:2 Clouds and thick darkness surround him; righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.
Lamentations 3:8 Even when I call out or cry for help, he shuts out my prayer.
Zechariah 7:13 "'When I called, they did not listen; so when they called, I would not listen,' says the LORD Almighty.