Lamentations 3:7
Verse 7 of 66. The 3rd of 5 chapters in Lamentations, in The Major Prophets.
3Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.
4My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
5He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
6He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.
7He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
8Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
9He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
10He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.
11He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
Lamentations 3:7 in the World English Bible
He has walled me about, so that I can’t go out. He has made my chain heavy.Read Lamentations 3:7 in the WEB
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 3:7
Where there was a way open it is now quite made up: He has compassed me on ever side with gall and travel; I vex, and fret, and tire myself, to find a way of escape, but can find none, v. 7. He has hedged me about, that I cannot get out." When Jerusalem was besieged it was said to be compassed in on every side, Luke xix. 43.
Read Matthew Henry on Lamentations 3:1–20: The Prophet's Personal Affliction. (b. c. 588.)
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