Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
He hath hedged me about that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
New American Standard Bible
He has made my
King James Version
He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
Holman Bible
ג Gimel
He has weighed me down with chains.
International Standard Version
He has walled me in so I cannot escape; he placed heavy chains on me.
A Conservative Version
He has walled me around, that I cannot go forth. He has made my chain heavy.
American Standard Version
He hath walled me about, that I cannot go forth; he hath made my chain heavy.
Amplified
He walled me in so that I cannot get out;
He has weighted down my chain.
Bible in Basic English
He has put a wall round me, so that I am not able to go out; he has made great the weight of my chain.
Julia Smith Translation
He walled about me and I shall not go forth: he loaded my brass.
King James 2000
He has hedged me in, that I cannot get out: he has made my chain heavy.
Lexham Expanded Bible
He has built a wall around me, I cannot go out; he has made my bronze fetters heavy.
Modern King James verseion
He has set a fence around me and I cannot go out; He has made my bronze chain heavy.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
{Gimel} He hath so hedged me in, that I cannot get out; and hath laid heavy links upon me.
NET Bible
(Gimel) He has walled me in so that I cannot get out; he has weighted me down with heavy prison chains.
New Heart English Bible
He has walled me in, so I can't escape; he has made my chains heavy.
The Emphasized Bible
He hath walled up around me, that I cannot get out, hath weighted my fetter;
Webster
He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
World English Bible
He has walled me about, that I can't go forth; he has made my chain heavy.
Youngs Literal Translation
He hath hedged me about, and I go not out, He hath made heavy my fetter.
Themes
Hedges » Illustrative » Of heavy judgments
Judgments » Should lead to » Humiliation
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Lamentations 3:7
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel's Affliction
6 He hath made me to dwell in dark places as those that have been long dead. 7 He hath hedged me about that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy. 8 Even when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
Cross References
Job 3:23
To the man whose way is hidden, and whom +God hath hedged in?
Job 19:8
He hath hedged up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
Psalm 88:8
Thou hast put my familiar friends far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
Jeremiah 38:6
Then they took Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchijah the son of Hammelech, which was in the court of the guard, and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire.
Jeremiah 40:4
And now, behold, I loose thee this day from the chains that are upon thy hand. If it seem good in thy sight to come with me to Babylon, come, and I will keep mine eye upon thee; but if it seem ill unto thee to come with me to Babylon, forbear. See, all the land is before thee: whither it seemeth good and right in thy sight to go, thither go.
Lamentations 1:14
The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, they are come up upon my neck; he hath made my strength to fail; the Lord hath delivered me into hands out of which I am not able to rise up.
Lamentations 3:9
He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
Lamentations 5:5
Our pursuers are on our necks: we are weary, we have no rest.
Daniel 9:12
And he hath performed his words, which he spoke against us, and against our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil; so that there hath not been done under the whole heaven as hath been done upon Jerusalem.
Hosea 2:6
Therefore behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns; and I will fence her in with a wall, that she shall not find her paths.