New International Version
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.
- 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.
- New Living Translation (NLT)He has walled me in, and I cannot escape. He has bound me in heavy chains.
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 long dead. He has walled me in so I cannot escape; he has weighed me down with chains. 8Even when I call out or cry for help, he shuts out my prayer. 9He has barred my way with blocks of stone; 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
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Lamentations 3:7
- Lamentations 3:9He has barred my way with blocks of stone; 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 shrouded my paths in darkness.
- Psalms 88:8You have taken from me my closest friends and have made me repulsive to them. I am confined and cannot escape;
- Jeremiah 38:6So they took Jeremiah and put him into the cistern of Malkijah, the king’s son, which was in the courtyard of the guard. They lowered Jeremiah by ropes into the cistern; it had no water in it, only mud, and Jeremiah sank down into the mud.
- Hosea 2:6Therefore I will block her path with thornbushes; I will wall her in so that she cannot find her way.
- Lamentations 1:14“My sins have been bound into a yoke; by his hands they were woven together. They have been hung on my neck, and the Lord has sapped my strength. He has given me into the hands of those I cannot withstand.
- Lamentations 5:5Those who pursue us are at our heels; we are weary and find no rest.
- Daniel 9:12You have fulfilled the words spoken against us and against our rulers by bringing on us great disaster. Under the whole 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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