Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
(Lamentations 3:8). The "cloud" is our sins, and God's wrath because of them (Isaiah 44:22; Isaiah 59:2).
covered—namely, thyself (so Lamentations 3:44), so as not to see and pity our calamities, for even the most cruel in seeing a sad spectacle are moved to pity. Compare as to God "hiding His face," Psalms 10:11; Psalms 22:25.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Lamentations 3:44:
Job 22:14
Song of Solomon 5:6
Isaiah 1:15
Isaiah 59:2
Lamentations 2:22
Lamentations 3:43-45
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