Lamentations 3:7
He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed me down with chains.
Majority Standard Bible
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 made me dwell in darkness like those dead for ages.
8Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer.
Cross References
Job 3:23Why is life given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?
Psalms 88:8You have removed my friends from me; You have made me repulsive to them; I am confined and cannot escape.
Jeremiah 38:6So they took Jeremiah and dropped him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son, which was in the courtyard of the guard. They lowered Jeremiah with ropes into the cistern, which had no water but only mud, and Jeremiah sank down into the mud.
Lamentations 1:14My transgressions are bound into a yoke, knit together by His hand; they are draped over my neck, and the Lord has broken my strength. He has delivered me into the hands of those I cannot withstand.
Lamentations 5:5We are closely pursued; we are weary and find no rest.
Hosea 2:6Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her path with thorns; I will enclose her with a wall, so she cannot 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 →