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Even whenגַּם כִּיI cry outאֶזְעַקand call for help,וַאֲשַׁוֵּעַhe shuts outשָׂתַםmy prayer.תְּפִלָּתִי
Lamentations 3:8
Study it in the app“Even when I cry out and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Lamentations 3:8, word by word
- I cry outאֶזְעַקezak
cry out
To shout for help, above all to YHWH.
Where else “ezak” appears- and call for helpאֲשַׁוֵּעַashavea
cry for help
To cry out for help, to call aloud to be rescued.
Where else “ashavea” appears- he shuts outשָׂתַםsatam
shut out
To shut out, like prayer.
Where else “satam” appears- my prayerתְּפִלָּתִtefilati
prayer
Prayer: words addressed to God to ask, to intercede or to praise. Several psalms bear this name.
Where else “tefilati” appears
The context
7He has walled around me, and I cannot go out; he has made heavy my chains.
8 · This verse (above)
9He has walled up my ways with hewn stone; he has made crooked my paths.