Matthew Poole and continuators on Lamentations 3:8

8 Also when I cry and shout , he shutteth out my prayer m.

In the condition I am in, I cannot help my self, no creatures can help me, I have no hope but in God, I take the ordinary course in that case, which is prayer, I pray fervently and aloud, as those that are serious and importunate for what they desire (for shouting here signifies no more than making a loud noise, not a loud noise of Joy and rejoycing, as it mostly signifies) but he deals with me as great persons that have no mind to listen to Suitors, and shut their gates against them, he shutteth out my supplications, which made their case wholly desperate and remediless.