The Pulpit Commentary on Lamentations 3:7-9

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Three figures, interrupted by a literal statement of the ill success of prayer. A traveller who finds himself suddenly caged up by a high thorn hedge (comp. Job 3:23; Hosea 2:6). A prisoner with a heavy chain.

Again, a traveller suddenly shut up by solid stone walls (comp. Hosea 2:8).

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