Bible verse
Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer.
Lamentations 3:8 · BSB
The verses around it, from Lamentations 3.
4 He has worn away my flesh and skin; He has shattered my bones.
5 He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
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.
11 He forced me off my path and tore me to pieces; He left me without help.
12 He bent His bow and set me as the target for His arrow.
KJV
Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
ASV
Yea, when I cry, and call for help, he shutteth out my prayer.
ERV
Yea, when I cry and call for help, he shutteth out my prayer.
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