You brought us into the net; You laid affliction 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.
- BSB You led us into the net; You laid burdens 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 1:13“From on high has he sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them; He has spread a net for my feet. He has turned me back. He has made me desolate and faint all day long.
- Ezek 12:13I will also spread my net on him, and he will be taken in my snare. I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet he will not see it, though he will die there.
- Hos 7:12When they go, I will spread my net on them. I will bring them down like the birds of the sky. I will chastise them, as their congregation has heard.
- Job 19:6know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net.
- Deut 33:11Yahweh, bless his skills. Accept the work of his hands. Strike through the hips of those who rise up against him, of those who hate him, that they not rise again.”
- Matt 6:13Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.’
- Lam 3:2–66He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in 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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