Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.

Bible References

Hedged

Lamentations 3:9

He has blocked my ways with cut stone;
He has made my paths crooked.
Job 3:23

“Why is the light of day given to a man whose way is hidden,
And whom God has hedged in?
Job 19:8

“He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass,
And He has set darkness upon my paths.
Psalm 88:8

You have put my friends far from me;
You have made me an object of loathing to them.
I am shut up and I cannot go out.
Jeremiah 38:6
So they took Jeremiah and threw him into the cistern of Malchijah the king’s son, which was in the court of the guardhouse; and they let Jeremiah down [into the cistern] with ropes. Now there was no water in the cistern but only mud, and Jeremiah sank in the mud.
Hosea 2:6

“Therefore, behold, I [the Lord God] will hedge up her way with thorns;
And I will build a wall against her [shutting off her way] so that she cannot find her paths.

Made

Lamentations 1:14

“The yoke of my transgressions is bound;
By His hand they are knit and woven together.
They have come upon my neck.
He has made my strength fail;
The Lord has put me into the hand
Of those against whom I cannot stand.
Lamentations 5:5

Our pursuers are at our necks;
We are worn out, there is no rest for us.
Daniel 9:12
And He has carried out completely His [threatening] words which He had spoken against us and against our rulers [the kings, princes, and judges] who ruled us, to bring on us a great tragedy; for under the whole heaven there has not been done anything [so dreadful] like that which [He commanded and] was done to Jerusalem.