New King James Version
Lamentations 3:7
7He has hedged me in so that I cannot get out; He has made my chain heavy.
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 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 woe. 6He has set me in dark places Like the dead of long ago. He has hedged me in so that I cannot get out; He has made my chain heavy. 8Even when I cry and shout, He shuts out my prayer. 9He has blocked my ways with hewn 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 blocked my ways with hewn stone; He has made my paths crooked.
- Job 3:23Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, And whom God has hedged in?
- Job 19:8He has fenced up my way, so that I cannot pass; And He has set darkness in my paths.
- Psalms 88:8You have put away my acquaintances far from me; You have made me an abomination to them; I am shut up, and I cannot get out;
- Jeremiah 38:6So they took Jeremiah and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the king’s son, which was in the court of the prison, and they let Jeremiah down with ropes. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire. So Jeremiah sank in the mire.
- Hosea 2:6“Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, And wall her in, So that she cannot find her paths.
- Lamentations 1:14“The yoke of my transgressions was bound; They were woven together by His hands, And thrust upon my neck. He made my strength fail; The Lord delivered me into the hands of those whom I am not able to withstand.
- Lamentations 5:5They pursue at our heels; We labor and have no rest.
- Daniel 9:12And He has confirmed His words, which He spoke against us and against our judges who judged us, by bringing upon us a great disaster; for under the whole heaven such has never been done as 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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