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Lamentations 3:8–9

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Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
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From verse 8

  1. Job 30:20Rank 1 from verse 8
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    20I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.

  2. Psalms 22:2Rank 2 from verse 8
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    2O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.

  3. Job 19:7Rank 3 from verse 8
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    7Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.

  4. Lamentations 3:44Rank 4 from verse 8
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    44Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.

  5. Matthew 27:46Rank 5 from verse 8
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    46And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

From verse 9

  1. Isaiah 63:17Rank 1 from verse 9
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    17¶ O Lord, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants’ sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.

  2. Hosea 2:6Rank 2 from verse 9
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    6¶ Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.

  3. Isaiah 30:28Rank 3 from verse 9
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    28And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.

  4. Lamentations 3:11Rank 4 from verse 9
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    11He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.

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DEFINED WORDS

Lamentations 3:8

COMBINED MEANING

cry

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1. A vocal call, shout, proclamation, alarm, wail, or other utterance, often loud. 2. An earnest appeal, prayer, complaint, or outcry for help, justice, or attention. 3. As a verb, to call out, shout, proclaim, wail, appeal, pray, or complain; figuratively, to bear urgent witness or demand notice.

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shout

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Sense 1: A loud cry or sudden outburst of voices. Sense 2: As a verb, to utter such a cry.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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out

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Outside, away from within, forth, absent, or no longer in a stated condition.

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DEFINED WORDS

Lamentations 3:9

COMBINED MEANING

inclosed

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Enclosed, surrounded, shut in, bounded, or set within a surrounding frame or boundary.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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hewn

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Sense 1: Cut, chopped, shaped, carved, or taken out by a cutting tool. Sense 2: Cut down or separated from a source, literally or by figure.

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stone

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Sense 1: A piece or mass of rock. Sense 2: To strike or kill with stones.

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made

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Formed, caused, prepared, appointed, or brought into a stated condition.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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paths

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1. Figuratively, ways or courses of conduct, action, or direction. 2. Tracks, roads, routes, or ways of passage or travel.

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crooked

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1. Bent, winding, or not straight. 2. Figuratively, morally perverse or turned aside from what is right.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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3:7He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.

3:8Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.

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3:9He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.

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3:10He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.

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