Lamentations 3:7 Cross References - CLV

⁷ He dikes me about so that I cannot go forth; He makes my copper fetters heavy;

²³ To a master whose way is concealed When Eloah has screened him about?

⁸ He has diked up my path, and I cannot pass; He settles darkness over my tracks.

⁸ You have taken my close acquaintances far from me; You have set me down as abhorrent to them; Being shut up, I cannot go forth."

⁶ And they take Jeremiah, and cast him into the pit of Malchiah son of the king, that [is] in the court of the prison, and they send down Jeremiah with cords; and in the pit there is no water, but mire, and Jeremiah sinks in the mire."

⁴ `And now, lo, I have loosed you to-day from the chains that [are] on your hand; if good in your eyes to come with me [to] Babylon, come, and I keep mine eye upon you:and if evil in your eyes to come with me to Babylon, forbear; see, all the land [is] before you, whither [it be] good, and whither [it be] right in your eyes to go--go.' --"

¹⁴ The yoke of my transgressions is bound on; In His hand they intertwine themselves; They ascend upon my neck; it has caused my vigor to falter. Yahweh has given me over into the hands of those I cannot rise against.

⁹ He dikes my ways with trimmed stone; He contorts my tracks.

⁵ With a yoke on our neck, we are pursued; we are weary, and there is no rest for us."

¹² Hence He is setting up His words, which He speaks concerning us and concerning our judges who judge us, to bring on us this great evil which is not done under the entire heavens as it is done in Jerusalem."

⁶ Wherefore, behold Me hedging her way with briars, and I dike her with a stone dike, and she will not find her tracks."