Holy Scripture
Lamentations 3:44
A church father on this verse
“Second, is a refusal from prayer of a person sinning. "Thou hast wrapped thyself with a cloud so that no prayer can pass through." Namely, regarding such sins displaying faults against prayer. Thus, Isaiah 59:2 claims: "But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God."”
Source: Septuagint
Original
44Thou hast veiled thyself with a cloud Because of prayer, That I might be blind,
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In context
42We have sinned, We have transgressed; And thou hast not pardoned.
43Thou hast visited us in wrath, And driven us away: Thou hast slain, Thou hast not pitied.
— Lamentations 3:44 —
45And be cast off. Thou hast set us alone In the midst of the nations.
46All our enemies have opened their mouth against us.