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Lamentations 3:7
7It is as if God has built high walls round me, and I cannot go out. My troubles are very bad. They hold me down like heavy 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 fought against me from every side. He caused much trouble for me, so that I am very sad. 6He has brought me to this dark place. So I am like a person who has been dead for a long time. It is as if God has built high walls round me, and I cannot go out. My troubles are very bad. They hold me down like heavy chains. 8I shout and I pray for help, but God does not listen. 9On every road that I go along, he has put big rocks in my way. I cannot go past them.
Read all of Lamentations 3Lamentations 3:7 word by word
גָּדַ֧ר בַּעֲדִ֛י וְלֹ֥א אֵצֵ֖א הִכְבִּ֥יד נְחָשְׁתִּֽי׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Lamentations 3:7
- Lamentations 3:9On every road that I go along, he has put big rocks in my way. I cannot go past them.
- Job 3:23So why do I continue to live? God has stopped me moving forward in life. I cannot see which way to go.
- Job 19:8God has stopped me so that I cannot move forward. He has made my path dark so that I cannot see the way to go.
- Psalms 88:8You have caused my best friends to keep away from me. They do not even want to look at me. A trap has caught me and I cannot escape.
- Jeremiah 38:6So the officers took hold of Jeremiah. They put him in a deep hole in the palace yard where the guards were. Prince Malkijah had made the hole to store water. There was no water in the hole, but only mud. They tied ropes around Jeremiah and they slowly dropped him into the hole. Jeremiah fell deep into the mud.
- Hosea 2:6So I will stop her living like that. I will put thorn bushes around her, like a wall. Then she will not be able to go anywhere that she likes.
- Lamentations 1:14He has caused our sins to seem like something very heavy that lies on our necks. It makes us weak. He has let the enemy be very strong. He let them win against us. So we cannot beat them.
- Lamentations 5:5Our enemies cause us to work like animals. But the work is too difficult and they will not let us rest.
- Daniel 9:12So you have done what you promised to do to us and to our rulers. You have caused us to have terrible trouble. You have punished Jerusalem with more trouble than has ever happened to any other city.
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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