Cloud of evils blocks prayer; no dove-wings over the wall

And these things are part of the confession that has already come; for as darkness from a cloud you brought upon us the circumstances of the terrors, and being far from you pursued, you destroyed those dead in the sin through the punishment. And since our sins were standing us apart from you as a walling-off cloud, our prayer was not arriving toward you; for we did not have “wings of a dove” (Psalm 55:6) to fly over saying: “in God I will overleap a wall” (Psalm 18:29); for it was not easy to pass the sin, being both hard and dark and without share of a holy spirit (Psalm 18:29).