Lamentations 3:7
He has hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he has made my chain heavy.
Updated King James 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 set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.
8Also when I cry and shout, he shuts out my prayer.
Cross References
Job 3:23Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God has hedged in?
Psalms 88:8You have put away mine acquaintance far from me; you have made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
Jeremiah 38:6Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.
Lamentations 1:14The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, and come up upon my neck: he has made my strength to fall, the LORD has delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up.
Lamentations 5:5Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
Hosea 2:6Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall 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 →