Lamentations 3:7 KJV — MannaFest

Lamentations 3:7

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

KJV

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ASV

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

WEB

He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed me down with chains.

YLT

He hath hedged me about, and I go not out, He hath made heavy my fetter.

DBT

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

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Lamentations — Five poems over the ruin of Jerusalem. The first four are alphabetic acrostics — every letter of the Hebrew alphabet drafted to hold the weight of grief. At the book's centre, mercy renewed every morning.

Author: Traditionally Jeremiah (cf. 2 Chron 35:25); the book itself is anonymous
Date: Shortly after Jerusalem's fall, c. 586 BC

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Job 19:8
He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
Hosea 2:6
Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.
Job 3:23
Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
Jeremiah 38:6
Then 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.
Psalms 88:8
Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.

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He has hedged me about, that I cannot get out. " When Jerusalem was besieged it was said to be compassed in on every side, Luke xix. "I am chained; and as some notorious malefactors are double-fettered, and loaded with irons, so he has made my chain heavy.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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LAM 3:7JOB 19:8 HOS 2:6
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LAM 3:7JOB 3:23 JOB 19:8
LAM 3:7JOB 19:8 JOB 3:23
LAM 3:7JOB 19:8 PRO 4:19
LAM 3:7PSA 88:8 PSA 31:11
LAM 3:7JOB 19:8 PSA 88:8
LAM 3:7JER 38:6 JER 37:21
LAM 3:7JOB 19:8 LAM 3:9

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