Berean Standard Bible
Lamentations 3:7
7He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed me down with chains.
Lamentations 3:7 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
- New International Version (NIV)He has walled me in so I cannot escape; he has weighed me down with chains.
- English Standard Version (ESV)He has walled me about so that I cannot escape; he has made my chains heavy;
- New King James Version (NKJV)He has hedged me in so that I cannot get out; He has made my chain heavy.
Context of Lamentations 3:7
5He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship. 6He 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. 8Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer. 9He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked.
Read all of Lamentations 3Lamentations 3:7 word by word
גָּדַ֧ר בַּעֲדִ֛י וְלֹ֥א אֵצֵ֖א הִכְבִּ֥יד נְחָשְׁתִּֽי׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Lamentations 3:7
- Lamentations 3:9He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked.
- Job 3:23Why is life given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?
- Job 19:8He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; He has veiled my paths with darkness.
- Psalms 88:8You have removed my friends from me; You have made me repulsive to them; I am confined and cannot escape.
- Jeremiah 38:6So 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.
- Hosea 2:6Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her path with thorns; I will enclose her with a wall, so she cannot find her way.
- Lamentations 1:14My 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.
- Lamentations 5:5We are closely pursued; we are weary and find no rest.
- Daniel 9:12You have carried out the words spoken against us and against our rulers by bringing upon us a great disaster. For under all of heaven, nothing has ever been done like what has been done to Jerusalem.
Commentaries on Lamentations 3:7
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 7He hath hedged me about - This also may refer to the lines drawn round the city during the siege. But these and similar expressions in the following verses may be merely metaphorical, to point out their straitened, oppressed, and distressed state.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 7The prophet feels as if enclosed within walls, and fettered.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 6-9Some interpreters understand these verses as a poetic description of Jeremiah’s time in a muddy cistern (a deep water pit) before the destruction of Jerusalem (Jeremiah 38:6–13).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 7-97-9. hedged--(Job 3:23; Ho 2:6). chain--literally, "chain of brass."Read the comment
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Commentaries on Lamentations 3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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