John Trapp on Lamentations 3:44

Ver. 44. Thou haſt covered thy ſelf with a cloud] Hid thy face from us; and ſecreted thy ſelf as a Judge doth (when he hath paſſed ſentence upon a malefactour) that he may not be ſolicited to reverſe it.

That our prayers ſhould not paſſe through] The veil of the Temple was of no debarring matter but thin and pervious, that the incenſe might eaſily paſſe thorough it into the Holy of Holies: but now it was otherwiſe; God had ſet a barre betwixt him and his people.