Lamentations 3:7

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

He shut me in, so I could not get out. He put heavy chains on me.

Cross References

Job 19:8

God has blocked my way to keep me from getting through. He has hidden my path in darkness.

Job 3:23

But God keeps their future a secret and builds a wall around them to protect them.

Hosea 2:6

“So I, the Lord, will block Israel’s road with thorns, and I will build a wall. Then she will not be able to find her path.

Lamentations 1:14

“My sins were tied up like a yoke. My sins were tied up in the Lord’s hands. His yoke is on my neck. He has made me weak. He has given me to those who I cannot stand up against.

Jeremiah 40:4

But now, Jeremiah, I will set you free. I am taking the chains off your wrists. If you want to, come with me to Babylon, and I will take good care of you. But if you don’t want to come with me, then don’t come. Look, the whole country is open to you. Go anywhere you want.

Jeremiah 38:6

So the officials took Jeremiah and put him into Malkijah’s cistern. Malkijah was the king’s son. The cistern was in the courtyard of the guardhouse. They used ropes to lower Jeremiah into the cistern. The cistern didn’t have any water in it, only mud. And Jeremiah sank down into the mud.

Psalm 88:8

You made my friends leave me. They all avoid me like someone no one wants to touch. Like a prisoner in my house, I cannot go out.

Daniel 9:12

“God said those things would happen to us and our leaders, and he made them happen. He made terrible things happen to us. No other city suffered the way Jerusalem suffered.

Lamentations 5:5

We are forced to wear a yoke on our necks. We get tired, and we have no rest.

Lamentations 3:9

He has blocked up my path with stones. He has made my path crooked.

Psalm 88:9

My eyes hurt from crying. Lord, I pray to you constantly! I lift my arms in prayer to you.