Lamentations 3:7
He has builded against me, and I cannot come forth: he has made my brazen chain heavy.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
In Context
6He has set me in dark places, as them that have long been dead.
8Gimel. Yea, though I cry and shout, he shuts out my prayer.
Cross References
Job 3:23Death is rest to such a man, for God has hedged him in.
Psalms 88:8God is glorified in the council of the saints; great and terrible toward all that are round about him.
Jeremiah 38:6For it is a day when those that plead on the mountains of Ephraim shall call, saying, Arise ye, and go up to Sion to the Lord your God.
Lamentations 1:14Nun. He has watched over my sins, they are twined about my hands, they have come up on my neck: my strength has failed; for the Lord has laid pains on my hands, I shall not be able to stand.
Lamentations 5:5we have been persecuted, we have laboured, we have had no rest.
Hosea 2:6And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they are children of fornication.
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 →