Lamentations 3:7
GHIMEL. He has built against me all around, so that I may not depart. He has increased the burden of my confinement.
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In The King James Version
He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
In Context
6BETH. He has gathered me into darkness, like those who are forever dead.
8GHIMEL. Yet even when I cry out and beg, he excludes my prayer.
Cross References
Job 3:23to a man whose way is hidden and whom God has surrounded with darkness?
Psalms 88:8God is glorified by the counsel of the saints. He is great and terrible above all those who are around him.
Jeremiah 38:6Therefore, they took Jeremiah and cast him into the pit of Malchiah, the son of Amelech, which was at the entrance to the prison. And they lowered Jeremiah by ropes into the pit, in which there was no water, but only mud. And so Jeremiah descended into the mire.
Lamentations 1:14NUN. Vigilant is the yoke of my iniquities. They have been folded together in his hand and imposed on my neck. My virtue has been weakened. The Lord has given me into a hand, out of which I am not able to rise.
Lamentations 5:5We were dragged by our necks. Being weary, no rest was given to us.
Hosea 2:6Because of this, behold, I will fence in your way with thorns, and I will surround it with a wall, and she will not find her paths.
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 3:2-21
The Prophet's Personal Affliction. ( b. c. 588.) 1 I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. 2 He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light. 3 Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day. 4 My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones. 5 He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail. 6 He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old. 7 He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath… Read the whole commentary →