A moment in scripture
Lamentations 3:8
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Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
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The surrounding passage
- Lamentations 3:6
He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.
- Lamentations 3:7
He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
- Lamentations 3:9
He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
- Lamentations 3:10
He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.