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Lamentations 3:8

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Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
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  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?

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Lamentations 3:8

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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.

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

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

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

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