King James Version

Lamentations 3:44

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

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סַכּ֤וֹתָהsakotahcoverסָכַךְverb, qal, perfect, 2nd person, masculine, singular — “cover”, a completed actionH5526properly, to entwine as ascreen; by implication, to fence in, cover over, (figuratively) protectcover, defence, defend, hedge in, join together, set, shut up.בֶֽעָנָן֙veananin cloudעָנָןpreposition, with the article, noun, common, masculine, singular, absolute — “in cloud”, the ordinary formH6051a cloud (as covering the sky), i.e. the nimbus or thunder-cloudcloud(-y).לָ֔ךְlakhetoלָ֔ךְpreposition, suffix, pronominal, 2nd person, feminine, singular — “to”toמֵעֲב֖וֹרmeavorfrom alienateעָבַרpreposition, verb, qal, infinitive construct — “from alienate”, the to-form of the verbH5674to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in copulation)alienate, alter, [idiom] at all, beyond, bring (over, through), carry over, (over-) come (on, over), conduct (over), convey over, current, deliver, do away, enter, escape, fail, gender, get over, (make) go (away, beyond, by, forth, his way…תְּפִלָּֽהtefilahprayerתְּפִלָּהnoun, common, feminine, singular, absolute — “prayer”, the ordinary formH8605intercession, supplication; by implication, a hymnprayer.

Jewish translation (JPS 1917)

Thou hast covered Thyself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.

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American Standard Version (1901)

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

Young’s Literal Translation

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

World English Bible

You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.

Darby Translation

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

Douay-Rheims

Samech. Thou hast set a cloud before thee, that our prayer may not pass through.

Jewish Publication Society (1917)

Thou hast covered Thyself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.

Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English

Thou hast veiled thyself with a cloud because of prayer, that I might be blind,

Septuagint (Brenton’s Greek, 1851)

Ἐπεσκέπασας νεφέλην σεαυτῷ ἕινεκεν προσευχῆς,