# Connecting Statement:
The prayer that began in [Lamentations 3:42](./40.md) continues.
# You have covered yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can pass through
This represents God refusing to listen to the people's prayer. AT: "You refuse to listen to our prayers. It is as though you put a cloud between us and you so that our prayers cannot get to you" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])