Lamentations 3:7 - The Scriptures 1998

⁷ He has hedged me in and I do not go out, He has 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.

Lamentations 3:7 Cross References

Job 19:8

He has fenced up my way, and I pass not over. And He has placed darkness in my paths.

Job 3:23

Why does He give light to a man whose way has been hidden, and whom Eloah has hedged in?

Psalm 88:8

You have put away my friends far from me; You have made me an abomination to them; I am shut in and do not go out;

Psalm 88:9

My eye grows dim because of affliction. יהוה, I have called upon You, all day long; I have stretched out my hands to You.

Jeremiah 38:6

And they took Yirmeyahu and threw him into the dungeon of Malkiyahu the sovereign’s son, which was in the court of the guard, and they let Yirmeyahu down with ropes. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mud. So Yirmeyahu sank in the mud.

Jeremiah 40:4

“And now, see, I loosen you today from the chains that were on your hand. If it seems good to you to come with me to Baḇ

Lamentations 1:14

“The yoke of my transgressions Has been bound by His hand, Woven together and thrust upon my neck. He has made my strength stumble, יהוה  has given me into hands Which I am unable to withstand.

Lamentations 3:9

He has blocked my ways with hewn stone, He has made my paths crooked.

Lamentations 5:5

We have been pursued close onto our neck, We have laboured and had no rest.

Daniel 9:12

“And He has confirmed His words, which He spoke against us and against our rulers who judged us, by bringing upon us great evil. For under all the heavens there has not been done like what was done to Yerushalayim.

Hosea 2:6

“Therefore, see, I am hedging up your way with thorns, and I shall wall her in, so that she does not find her paths.