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Lamentations 3:44 KJV
Lamentations · chapter 3 · verse 44
Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.Lamentations 3:44 · King James Version
Lamentations 3:44 in context
42We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.
43Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
44Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.
45Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
46All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- coveredçâkakproperly, to entwine as ascreenH5526 →
- prayertᵉphillâhintercession, supplicationH8605 →
- cloudʻânâna cloudH6051 →
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It is easier to chide ourselves for complaining than to chide ourselves out of it. The prophet had owned that a living man should not complain, as if he checked himself for his complaints in the former part of the chapter; and yet here the clouds return after the rain and the wound bleeds afresh;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 42-54