You led us into the net; You laid burdens on our backs.
Parallel translations
- WEB You brought us into prison. You laid a burden on our backs.
- KJV Thou broughtest us into the net; thou laidst affliction upon our loins.
- NKJV You brought us into the net; You laid affliction on our backs.
- NASB You brought us into the net; You laid an oppressive burden upon us.
- NLT You captured us in your net and laid the burden of slavery on our backs.
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Quick answer
God brought them into hardship like prison and laid heavy burdens on them. It honestly acknowledges God's hand even in affliction.
Overview
The people confess that God led them into confinement and placed burdens upon them. Even painful seasons are seen as under God's sovereign purpose. Such trust that suffering serves God's good ends is deepened at the cross, where the greatest evil served the greatest good.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Lam 1:13He sent fire from on high, and it overpowered my bones. He spread a net for my feet and turned me back. He made me desolate, faint all the day long.
- Ezek 12:13But I will spread My net over him, and he will be caught in My snare. I will bring him to Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans; yet he will not see it, and there he will die.
- Hos 7:12As they go, I will spread My net over them; I will bring them down like birds of the air. I will chastise them when I hear them flocking together.
- Job 19:6then understand that it is God who has wronged me and drawn His net around me.
- Deut 33:11Bless his substance, O LORD, and accept the work of his hands. Smash the loins of those who rise against him, and of his foes so they can rise no more.”
- Matt 6:13And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’
- Lam 3:2–66He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness instead of light.
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The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.
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