He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy. Hedged - (Job 3:23; Hosea 2:6). Hosea shows that this hedging up for Israel is not for her eternal ruin, but for good in the end, "I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths. And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.)"
My chain - literally, chain of brass. Verse 8. He shutteth out my prayer - image from a door shutting out any entrance (Job 30:20. So the antitype, Christ (Psalms 22:2).
Verse 9. He hath enclosed my ways with hewn stone - which coheres so closely as not to admit of being broken through.
He hath made my paths crooked - thwarted my plans and efforts, so that none went right. [Daleth (d)]