Lamentations 3:7

KJV1611 – Modern English

He has hedged me in so I cannot get out; He has made my chain heavy.

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  • Job 3:23 : 23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, and whom God has hedged in?
  • Job 19:8 : 8 He has fenced up my way so that I cannot pass, and He has set darkness in my paths.
  • Ps 88:8 : 8 You have put my acquaintance far from me; you have made me an abomination to them. I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
  • Jer 38:6 : 6 Then they took Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, which was in the court of the prison; and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire; so Jeremiah sank in the mire.
  • Jer 40:4 : 4 And now, behold, I release you this day from the chains which were upon your hand. If it seems good to you to come with me to Babylon, come; and I will look well to you: but if it seems bad to you to come with me to Babylon, hold back: behold, all the land is before you: wherever it seems good and convenient for you to go, there go.
  • Lam 1:14 : 14 The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are woven together, and come upon my neck: he has made my strength to fall, the Lord has delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up.
  • Lam 3:9 : 9 He has enclosed my ways with hewn stone; He has made my paths crooked.
  • Lam 5:5 : 5 Our necks are under persecution; we labor and have no rest.
  • Dan 9:12 : 12 And He has confirmed His words, which He spoke against us and against our judges who judged us, by bringing upon us a great calamity: for under the whole heaven, such as has been done upon Jerusalem has not been done.
  • Hos 2:6 : 6 Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and make a wall, so she shall not find her paths.

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    8Even when I cry and shout, He shuts out my prayer.

    9He has enclosed my ways with hewn stone; He has made my paths crooked.

    10He was to me like a bear lying in wait, and like a lion in hiding.

    11He has turned aside my ways and torn me to pieces; He has made me desolate.

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    1I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of His wrath.

    2He has led me and brought me into darkness, but not into light.

    3Surely against me He is turned; He turns His hand against me all day long.

    4My flesh and my skin He has made old; He has broken my bones.

    5He has built against me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

    6He has set me in dark places, like those long dead.

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    6Know now that God has overthrown me and has surrounded me with His net.

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    8He has fenced up my way so that I cannot pass, and He has set darkness in my paths.

    9He has stripped me of my glory and taken the crown from my head.

    10He has destroyed me on every side, and I am gone; and my hope He has removed like a tree.

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    53They cut off my life in the pit and threw a stone upon me.

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    13From above he has sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them: he has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back: he has made me desolate and faint all the day.

    14The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are woven together, and come upon my neck: he has made my strength to fall, the Lord has delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up.

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    3For the enemy has persecuted my soul; he has crushed my life to the ground; he has made me dwell in darkness, like those long dead.

    4Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.

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    23Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, and whom God has hedged in?

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    11God has delivered me to the ungodly and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.

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    13His archers surround me, he cleaves my entrails asunder and does not spare; he pours out my gall upon the ground.

    14He breaks me with breach upon breach; he runs upon me like a giant.

  • Job 30:18-19
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    18By the great force of my disease my garment is changed: it binds me about like the collar of my coat.

    19He has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.

  • Job 6:3
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    3For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea; therefore my words are swallowed up.

  • Job 38:10
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    10And fixed My limit for it, and set bars and doors,

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    5The sorrows of hell surrounded me: the snares of death confronted me.

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    7The steps of his strength shall be shortened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.

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    8And if they are bound in chains, and held in cords of affliction;

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