Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my [a]prayer.

He hath [b]stopped up my ways with hewn stone, and turned away my paths.

10 [c]He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 3:8 This is a great tentation to the godly when they see not the fruit of their prayers, and causeth them to think that they are not heard, which thing God useth to do, that they might pray more earnestly and the oftener.
  2. Lamentations 3:9 And keepeth me in hold as a prisoner.
  3. Lamentations 3:10 He hath no pity on me.

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