Lamentations 3:7

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

God built a fence around me that I cannot climb over, and he chained me down.

Cross References

Job 19:8

God has me trapped with a wall of darkness

Job 3:23

Why do I go on living when God has me surrounded, and I can't see the road?

Psalm 88:8

You have made my friends turn in horror from me. I am a prisoner who cannot escape,

Psalm 88:9

and I am almost blind because of my sorrow. Each day I lift my hands in prayer to you, LORD.

Jeremiah 38:6

Then they took me back to the courtyard of the palace guards and let me down with ropes into the well that belonged to Malchiah, the king's son. There was no water in the well, and I sank down in the mud.

Jeremiah 40:4

Today I am taking the chains off your wrists and setting you free! If you want to, you can come with me to Babylonia, and I will see that you are taken care of. Or if you decide to stay here, you can go wherever you wish.

Lamentations 1:14

You have tied my sins around my neck, and they weigh so heavily that my strength is gone. You have put me in the power of enemies too strong for me.

Lamentations 3:9

God put big rocks in my way and made me follow a crooked path.

Lamentations 5:5

We are terribly ill-treated; we are worn out and can find no rest.

Daniel 9:12

You warned us and our leaders that Jerusalem would suffer the worst disaster in human history, and you did exactly as you had threatened.

Hosea 2:6

I, the LORD, will build a fence of thorns to block her path.