Lamentations 3:7

Bishops' Bible (1568)

He hath so hedged me in, that I can not get out, and hath layde heauie linkes vpon me.

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  • Job 3:23 : 23 From whom their endes are hyd, and consealed by God?
  • Job 19:8 : 8 He hath hedged vp my way that I can not passe, and he hath set darkenesse in my pathes.
  • Ps 88:8 : 8 Thou hast put away myne acquaintaunce farre from me, and made me to be abhorred of them: I am shut vp, I can not get foorth.
  • Jer 38:6 : 6 Then toke they Ieremie and cast him into the dungeon of Melchiah the sonne of Amelech, that dwelt in the fore entrie of the prison, and they let downe Ieremie with coardes into a dungeon, where there was no water, but mire: So Ieremie stack fast in the mire.
  • Jer 40:4 : 4 Beholde, I loose the bandes from thy handes this day: yf thou wilt nowe go with me vnto Babylon, vp then, for I wyll see to thee, and prouide for thee: but yf thou wylt not go with me to Babylon, then remayne here: Beholde all the lande is at thy wyll, loke where thou thinkest conuenient and good for thee to abyde, there dwell.
  • Lam 1:14 : 14 The yoke of my transgressions is bounde fast to his hande, they are wrapped or writhen and come vp about my necke: he hath caused my strength to fayle, the Lorde hath deliuered me into those handes wherout I can not quyte my selfe.
  • Lam 3:9 : 9 He hath stopped vp my wayes with foure squared stones, and made my pathes crooked.
  • Lam 5:5 : 5 Our neckes are vnder persecution, we are weery and haue no rest.
  • Dan 9:12 : 12 And he hath confirmed his wordes, which he spake against vs and against our iudges that iudged vs, to bring vpon vs such a great plague as neuer was vnder heauen, lyke as it is now come to passe in Hierusalem.
  • Hos 2:6 : 6 Therefore beholde, I wyll stop thy way with thornes, and make a hedge, that she shall not finde her pathes.

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    8 Though I crye and call pitiously, yet heareth he not my prayer.

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    1 I am the man that thorowe the rodde of his wrath haue experience of miserie.

    2 He droue me foorth and led me, yea into darknesse, but not into light.

    3 Against me is he turned, he turneth his hande dayly against me.

    4 My flesh and my skinne hath he made olde, and my bones hath he bruised.

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    6 Know this then, that it is God which hath ouerthrowe me, and hath compassed me with his net.

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    9 He hath spoyled me of myne honour, and taken the crowne away from my head.

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    11 God hath shut me vp with the vngodly, and deliuered me into the handes of the wicked.

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    13 His archers compasse me rounde about, he woundeth my raines, and doth not spare, my bowels hath he powred vpon the grounde.

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