Lamentations 3:7
He has built a wall around me so I can't escape; he has bound me with heavy chains.
Free Bible Version
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 forced me to live in darkness like those long dead.
8Even when I keep on crying out for help, he refuses to listen to my prayer.
Cross References
Job 3:23Why is light given to someone who doesn't know where they're going, someone God has fenced in?
Psalms 88:8You have made my friends avoid me by making me look repulsive to them. I'm trapped, I can't go out.
Jeremiah 38:6So they took Jeremiah and put him in the cistern belonging to Malchiah, the king's son, which was in the guard's courtyard. They lowered Jeremiah down with ropes into the cistern. It didn't have any water, only mud, and Jeremiah sank into the mud.
Lamentations 1:14He took my rebellious sins and twisted them together into a yoke that he tied to my neck. He took away all my strength, and handed me over defenseless to my enemies.
Lamentations 5:5Like animals we're driven along with harnesses around our necks; we're worn out but don't find any rest.
Hosea 2:6That is why I am going to block her path with thorn bushes, and build a stone wall to stop her so she won't find her way.
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 →