Lamentations 3:7
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed me down with chains.”
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“He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed me down with chains.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.”
King James Version · Public Domain“He hath walled me about, that I cannot go forth; he hath made my chain heavy.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“He hath hedged me about, and I go not out, He hath made heavy my fetter.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Lamentations 3:7 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 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 veiled my paths with darkness.
- Psalms 88:8You have removed my friends from me; You have made me repulsive to them; I am confined and cannot escape.
- Psalms 88:9My eyes grow dim with grief. I call to You daily, O LORD; I spread out my hands to You.
- Jeremiah 38:6So they took Jeremiah and dropped him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son, which was in the courtyard of the guard. They lowered Jeremiah with ropes into the cistern, which had no water but only mud, and Jeremiah sank down into the mud.
- Jeremiah 40:4But now, behold, I am freeing you today from the chains that were on your wrists. If it pleases you to come with me to Babylon, then come, and I will take care of you. But if it seems wrong to you to come with me to Babylon, go no farther. Look, the whole land is before you. Wherever it seems good and right to you, go there.”
- Lamentations 1:14My transgressions are bound into a yoke, knit together by His hand; they are draped over my neck, and the Lord has broken my strength. He has delivered me into the hands of those I cannot withstand.
- Lamentations 3:9He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked.
- Lamentations 5:5We are closely pursued; we are weary and find no rest.
- Daniel 9:12You have carried out the words spoken against us and against our rulers by bringing upon us a great disaster. For under all of heaven, nothing has ever been done like what has been done to Jerusalem.
- Hosea 2:6Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her path with thorns; I will enclose her with a wall, so she cannot find her way.
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