He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness upon my paths.
Lamentations 3:7 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional He has walled me about so that I cannot escape; he has put heavy chains on me; Flere versionerKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: He hath made my chain heavy. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition He walled me in so that I cannot get out; He has weighted down my chain. American Standard Version (1901) He hath walled me about, that I cannot go forth; he hath made my chain heavy. Common English Bible He walled me in so I couldn’t escape; he made my chains heavy. Catholic Public Domain Version GHIMEL. He has built against me all around, so that I may not depart. He has increased the burden of my confinement. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Ghimel. He hath built against me round about, that I may not get out: he hath made my fetters heavy. |
He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness upon my paths.
You have caused my companions to shun me; you have made me a thing of horror to them. I am shut in so that I cannot escape;
my eye grows dim through sorrow. Every day I call on you, O Lord; I spread out my hands to you.
So they took Jeremiah and threw him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king's son, which was in the court of the guard, letting Jeremiah down by ropes. Now there was no water in the cistern, but only mud, and Jeremiah sank in the mud.
Now look, I have just released you today from the fetters on your hands. If you wish to come with me to Babylon, come, and I will take good care of you; but if you do not wish to come with me to Babylon, you need not come. See, the whole land is before you; go wherever you think it good and right to go.
My transgressions were bound into a yoke; by his hand they were fastened together; they weigh on my neck, sapping my strength; the Lord handed me over to those whom I cannot withstand.
With a yoke on our necks we are hard driven; we are weary, we are given no rest.
He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us and against our rulers, by bringing upon us a calamity so great that what has been done against Jerusalem has never before been done under the whole heaven.
Therefore I will hedge up her way with thorns; and I will build a wall against her, so that she cannot find her paths.