Lamentations 3:8 meaning and explanation
Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer.
Lamentations 3:8, Berean Standard Bible
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The speaker is the man of verse 1, voicing Jerusalem's grief after its destruction. He has pictured God as an enemy who walled him in and weighed him down with chains, and here he adds that prayer itself feels blocked.
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