The prophet feels as if enclosed within walls, and shackled.

He has hedged. —From the darkness of Hades we pass to that of the prison-house, in which the mourner is “hedged” or confined, boun…

He has set me in dark places, as they that are dead of old. He has hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he has made my chain heavy.

Here he says, first, that he was held shut up; for גדר, gidar, is to enclose, and גדרה, gidare, means a fence, a mound, …

He has hedged me about, that I cannot go out
When in prison, or in the dungeon, or during the siege of Jerusalem; th…

The prophet relates the more gloomy and discouraging part of his experience, and how he found support and relief. In the time of his trial the Lord…

Here he excludes any means of escape.

1. Because of the enemy's siege. The text says, he has built against me all around,…