Lamentations 3:7
He has built against me, and I cannot come forth: 1 He has made my brazen chain heavy. 1
Updated 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, 1 As them that have long been dead. 1
8Yea, though I cry and shout, 1 He shuts out my prayer. 1
Cross References
Job 3:23Death is rest to such a man, 1 For God has hedged him in. 1
Psalms 88:8God is glorified in the council of the saints; 1 Great and terrible toward all that are round about him. 1
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 Zion to the Lord your God.
Lamentations 1:14He has watched over my sins, 1 They are twined about my hands, 1 They have come up on my neck: 1 My strength has failed; 1 For the Lord has laid pains on my hands, 1 I shall not be able to stand. 1
Lamentations 5:5We have been persecuted, 1 We have labored, we have had no rest. 1
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 →