Lamentations 3:7

New American Bible - revised edition

He has hemmed me in with no escape, weighed me down with chains;

Cross References

Job 19:8

He has barred my way and I cannot pass; veiled my path in darkness;

Job 3:23

A man whose path is hidden from him, one whom God has hemmed in!

Psalm 88:8

Your wrath lies heavy upon me; all your waves crash over me. Selah

Psalm 88:9

Because of you my acquaintances shun me; you make me loathsome to them; Caged in, I cannot escape;

Jeremiah 38:6

And so they took Jeremiah and threw him into the cistern of Prince Malchiah, in the court of the guard, letting him down by rope. There was no water in the cistern, only mud, and Jeremiah sank down into the mud.

Jeremiah 40:4

Now, I release you today from the chains upon your hands; if you want to come with me to Babylon, then come: I will look out for you. But if you do not want to come to Babylon, very well. See, the whole land lies before you; go wherever you think good and proper.

Lamentations 1:14

The yoke of my rebellions is bound together, fastened by his hand. His yoke is upon my neck; he has made my strength fail. The Lord has delivered me into the grip of those I cannot resist.

Lamentations 3:9

He has hemmed in my ways with fitted stones, and made my paths crooked.

Lamentations 5:5

With a yoke on our necks, we are driven; we are worn out, but allowed no rest.

Daniel 9:12

He fulfilled the words he spoke against us and against those who ruled us, by bringing upon us an evil—no evil so great has happened under heaven as happened in Jerusalem.

Hosea 2:6

I will have no pity on her children, for they are children of prostitution.