Lamentations 3:7

Webster's Bible (1833)

He has walled me about, that I can't go forth; he has made my chain heavy.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 3:23 : 23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, Whom God has hedged in?
  • Job 19:8 : 8 He has walled up my way so that I can't pass, And has set darkness in my paths.
  • Ps 88:8 : 8 You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an abomination to them. I am confined, and I can't escape.
  • Jer 38:6 : 6 Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchijah the king's son, that was in the court of the guard: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. In the dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire.
  • Jer 40:4 : 4 Now, behold, I loose you this day from the chains which are on your hand. If it seem good to you to come with me into Babylon, come, and I will look well to you; but if it seem ill to you to come with me into Babylon, forbear: behold, all the land is before you; where it seems good and right to you to go, there go.
  • Lam 1:14 : 14 The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand; They are knit together, they are come up on my neck; he has made my strength to fail: The Lord has delivered me into their hands, against whom I am not able to stand.
  • Lam 3:9 : 9 He has walled up my ways with hewn stone; he has made my paths crooked.
  • Lam 5:5 : 5 Our pursuers are on our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.
  • Dan 9:12 : 12 He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us, and against our judges who judged us, by bringing on us a great evil; for under the whole sky has not been done as has been done on Jerusalem.
  • Hos 2:6 : 6 Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, And I will build a wall against her, That she can't find her way.

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    8Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.

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    1I am the man that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

    2He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.

    3Surely against me he turns his hand again and again all the day.

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

    5He has built against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.

    6He has made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.

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    6Know now that God has subverted me, And has surrounded me with his net.

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

    10He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. My hope he has plucked up like a tree.

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    53They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone on me.

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    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 hid, Whom God has hedged in?

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    6The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of death came on me.

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    11God delivers me to the ungodly, And casts me into the hands of the wicked.

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    14He breaks me with breach on breach. He runs on me like a giant.

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    18By great force is my garment disfigured. It binds me about as the collar of my coat.

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

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    3So am I made to possess months of misery, Wearisome nights are appointed to me.

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

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    13Isn't it that I have no help in me, That wisdom is driven quite from me?