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Lamentations 3:7
Lamentations 3:7 is verse 7 of Lamentations chapter 3, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed me down with chains.
King James Version
He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
World English Bible
He has walled me about, so that I can’t go out. He has made my chain heavy.
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Lamentations 3:5–9 · Berean Standard Bible
5 He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
6 He has made me dwell in darkness like those dead for ages.
7 He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed me down with chains.
8 Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer.
9 He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Lamentations 3:9He has barred my ways with cut stones; 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 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.
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.
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.
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 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.