Lamentations 3:7
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He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
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Lamentations 3:5 He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
Lamentations 3:9 He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
Job 19:8 He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
Job 3:23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
Hosea 2:6 ¶Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.
Psalms 88:7 Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.
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Isaiah 49:24 ¶Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered?
Isaiah 49:25 But thus saith the LORD, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children.
Lamentations 5:5 Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
Lamentations 5:14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
Daniel 9:12 And he hath confirmed his words, which he spake against us, and against our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil: for under the whole heaven hath not been done as hath been done upon Jerusalem.
Lamentations 1:14 The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, and come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall, the Lord hath delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up.
The use of a hedge about an enclosed field is twofold:
1. To keep out other beasts which belong not to the owner of the ground; in this sense God set a hedge sometimes about Canaan, Isa 5:5.
2. To keep in those beasts that are within; thus God had now hedged them in, into a barren place where they had no pasture, but were continually pushed at by other beasts with whom they were mixed, and who were stronger than they, and they could not get out. God had dealt with them as with grievous malefactors, who are loaded with heavy chains. He had made their affliction heavy and insupportable.