The Meaning of Lamentations 3:44 Explained

Lamentations 3:44

KJV: Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.

YLT: Thou hast covered Thyself with a cloud, So that prayer doth not pass through.

Darby: Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that prayer should not pass through.

ASV: Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

Thou hast covered  thyself with a cloud,  that [our] prayer  should not pass through. 

What does Lamentations 3:44 Mean?

Verse Meaning

The Lord had blocked Himself off from His people, as a cloud blocks the heavens, so their prayers would not affect Him.

Chapter Summary: Lamentations 3

1  The prophet bewails his own calamities
22  By the mercies of God, he nourishes his hope
37  He acknowledges God's justice
55  He prays for deliverance
64  And vengeance on his enemies

What do the individual words in Lamentations 3:44 mean?

You have covered with a cloud Yourself that should not pass through prayer
סַכּ֤וֹתָה בֶֽעָנָן֙ לָ֔ךְ מֵעֲב֖וֹר תְּפִלָּֽה

סַכּ֤וֹתָה  You  have  covered 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Perfect, second person masculine singular
Root: סוּךְ 
Sense: (Qal) to hedge, fence about, shut in.
בֶֽעָנָן֙  with  a  cloud 
Parse: Preposition-b, Article, Noun, masculine singular
Root: עָנָן  
Sense: cloud, cloudy, cloud-mass.
לָ֔ךְ  Yourself 
Parse: Preposition, second person feminine singular
מֵעֲב֖וֹר  that  should  not  pass  through 
Parse: Preposition-m, Verb, Qal, Infinitive construct
Root: עָבַר 
Sense: to pass over or by or through, alienate, bring, carry, do away, take, take away, transgress.
תְּפִלָּֽה  prayer 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular
Root: תְּפִלָּה  
Sense: prayer.