Holy Scripture
Lamentations 3:8
A church father on this verse
“Second, is cut off a remedy for escape, due to an exclusion of prayer. "Though I call and cry for help, he shuts out my prayer." And, as Psalm 22:2 says: "O my God, I cry by day, but thou dost not answer; and by night, but find no rest."”
Source: Septuagint
Original
8Yea, though I cry and shout, He shuts out my prayer.
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In context
6He has set me in dark places, As them that have long been dead.
7He has built against me, and I cannot come forth: He has made my brazen chain heavy.
— Lamentations 3:8 —
9He has built up my ways, He has hedged my paths;
10He has troubled me, As a she-bear lying in wait: He is to me as a lion in secret places.