Lamentations 3:7
5 He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
6 He has made me dwell in darkness like those dead for ages.
He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed me down with chains.
8 Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer.
9 He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed me down with chains.
- KJV
- He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
- WEB
- He has walled me about, so that I can’t go out. He has made my chain heavy.
- ASV
- He hath walled me about, that I cannot go forth; he hath made my chain heavy.
- DARBY
- He hath hedged me about that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
- BLB
- He has put a hedge around me, so that I cannot get out; He has made heavy my chain of bronze;
- ÅB
- Han murte igjen for meg, så jeg ikke kan komme ut; han gjorde mine lenker tunge.
- OTB
- Han har murt meg inne så jeg ikke kan flykte; han har tynget meg med lenker.
- B1930
- Han murte igjen for mig, så jeg ikke kan komme ut; han gjorde mine lenker tunge.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 19:8
He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; He has veiled my paths with darkness.
Read in contextJob 3:23
Why is life given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?
Read in contextJeremiah 38:6
So 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.
Read in contextPsalms 88:8
You have removed my friends from me; You have made me repulsive to them; I am confined and cannot escape.
Read in contextJeremiah 40:4
But now, behold, I am freeing you today from the chains that were on your wrists. If it pleases you to come with me to Babylon, then come, and I will take care of you. But if it seems wrong to you to come with me to Babylon, go no farther. Look, the whole land is before you. Wherever it seems good and right to you, go there.”
Read in contextHosea 2:6
Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her path with thorns; I will enclose her with a wall, so she cannot find her way.
Read in contextLamentations 1:14
My 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.
Read in contextLamentations 5:5
We are closely pursued; we are weary and find no rest.
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