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Lamentations 3:8
Even when I send up a cry for help, he keeps my prayer shut out.
Lamentations 3:8 · Bible in Basic English
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Lamentations 3:8 in other translations
Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer.
Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.
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In context
5 He has put up a wall against me, shutting me in with bitter sorrow.
6 He has kept me in dark places, like those who have been long dead.
7 He has put a wall round me, so that I am not able to go out; he has made great the weight of my chain.
8 Even when I send up a cry for help, he keeps my prayer shut out.
9 He has put up a wall of cut stones about my ways, he has made my roads twisted.
10 He is like a bear waiting for me, like a lion in secret places.
11 By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste.
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