Lamentations 3:7 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁷ He hath fenced me about, that I cannot go forth; he hath made my chain heavy.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: He hath made my chain heavy.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ He walled me in so that I cannot get out; He has weighted down my chain.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ He hath walled me about, that I cannot go forth; he hath made my chain heavy.

Common English Bible

⁷ He walled me in so I couldn’t escape; he made my chains heavy.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ 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

⁷ Ghimel. He hath built against me round about, that I may not get out: he hath made my fetters heavy.

Lamentations 3:7 Cross References

Job 19:8

He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, And hath set darkness in my paths.

Job 3:23

Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, And whom God hath hedged in?

Psalm 88:8

Thou hast put mine acquaintance far from me; Thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.

Psalm 88:9

Mine eye wasteth away by reason of affliction: I have called daily upon thee, O LORD, I have spread forth my hands unto thee.

Jeremiah 38:6

Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchijah the king's son, that was in the court of the guard: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: and Jeremiah sank in the mire.

Jeremiah 40:4

And now, behold, I loose thee this day from the chains which are upon thine hand. If it seem good unto thee to come with me into Babylon, come, and I will look well unto thee: but if it seem ill unto thee to come with me into Babylon, forbear: behold, all the land is before thee; whither it seemeth good and convenient unto thee to go, thither go.

Lamentations 1:14

The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand; they are knit together, they are come up upon my neck; he hath made my strength to fail: the Lord hath delivered me into their hands, against whom I am not able to stand.

Lamentations 3:9

He hath fenced up my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.

Lamentations 5:5

Our pursuers are upon our necks: we are weary, and have no rest.

Daniel 9:12

And he hath confirmed his words, which he spake against us, and against our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil: for under the whole heaven hath not been done as hath been done upon Jerusalem.

Hosea 2:6

Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and I will make a fence against her, that she shall not find her paths.