Tree of Life Version
Lamentations 3:7
7He has walled me in so I cannot get out. He 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 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 made me dwell in dark places like those long dead. He has walled me in so I cannot get out. He made my chain heavy. 8Even when I cry out and call for help, He shuts out my prayer. 9He walled in my ways with hewn stone. He twisted my paths.
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 walled in my ways with hewn stone. He twisted my paths.
- Job 3:23Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, and whom God has hedged in?
- Job 19:8He has blocked my way so I cannot pass, and has shrouded my path in darkness.
- Psalms 88:8Your wrath lies heavily on me. You afflicted me with all Your waves. Selah
- Jeremiah 38:6So they took Jeremiah and cast him into the cistern-pit of Malchiah the king’s son, which was in the courtyard of the guard, lowering Jeremiah down with ropes. Now in the pit there was no water, but only mud, and Jeremiah sank into the mud.
- Hosea 2:6I will have no compassion for her children, for they are children of prostitution.
- Lamentations 1:14My transgressions are bound into a yoke, woven together by His hand. They have come upon my neck and He has sapped my strength. The Lord delivered me over to those I cannot withstand.
- Lamentations 5:5Our pursuers are at our necks. We are weary and have no rest.
- Daniel 9:12So He has confirmed His words that he spoke against us and against our rulers who ruled over us by bringing on us a great calamity. Under the whole heaven nothing like this has ever 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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