Lamentations 3:7

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

He walled me in so that I cannot get out; He has weighted down my chain.

Cross References

Job 19:8

He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass, and He has set darkness upon my paths.

Job 3:23

[Why is the light of day given] to a man whose way is hidden, and whom God has hedged in?

Psalm 88:8

You have put my [familiar] friends far from me; You have made me an abomination to them. I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.

Psalm 88:9

My eye grows dim because of sorrow and affliction. Lord, I have called daily on You; I have spread forth my hands to You.

Jeremiah 38:6

So they took Jeremiah and cast him into the dungeon or cistern pit [in the charge] of Malchiah the king's son, which was in the court of the guard; and they let Jeremiah down [into the pit] with ropes. And in the dungeon or cistern pit there was no water, but only mire, and Jeremiah sank in the mire.

Jeremiah 40:4

Now, see, I am freeing you today [Jeremiah] from the chains upon your hands. If it seems good to you to come with me to Babylon, come, and I will keep an eye on you and look after you well. But if it seems bad to you to come with me to Babylon, then do not do it. Behold, all the land is before you; wherever it seems good, right, and convenient for you to go, go there.

Lamentations 1:14

The yoke of my transgressions is bound by His hand; they were twined together; they were set upon my neck. He has made my strength fail and [me to] stumble; the Lord has delivered me into the hands of those I am unable to resist or withstand. [Deut. 28:48.]

Lamentations 3:9

He has enclosed my ways with hewn stone; He has made my paths crooked.

Lamentations 5:5

Our pursuers are upon our necks [like a yoke]; we are weary and are allowed no rest.

Daniel 9:12

And He has carried out intact His [threatening] words which He threatened against us and against our judges [the kings, princes, and rulers generally] who ruled us, and He has brought upon us a great evil; for under the whole heavens there has not been done before [anything so dreadful] as [He has caused to be] done against Jerusalem.

Hosea 2:6

Therefore, behold, I [the Lord God] will hedge up her way [even yours, O Israel] with thorns; and I will build a wall against her that she shall not find her paths.