Lamentations 3:7

New International Reader's Version

He has built walls around me, so I can’t escape. He has put heavy chains on me.

Cross References

Job 19:8

God has blocked my way, and I can’t get through. He has made my paths so dark I can’t see where I’m going.

Job 3:23

Why is life given to a man like me? God hasn’t told me what will happen to me. He has surrounded me with nothing but trouble.

Psalm 88:8

You have taken my closest friends away from me. You have made me sickening to them. I feel trapped and can’t escape.

Psalm 88:9

I’m crying so much I can’t see very well. Lord, I call out to you every day. I lift up my hands to you in prayer.

Jeremiah 38:6

So they took Jeremiah and put him into an empty well. It belonged to Malkijah. He was a member of the royal court. His well was in the courtyard of the guard. Zedekiah’s men lowered Jeremiah by ropes into the well. It didn’t have any water in it. All it had was mud. And Jeremiah sank down into the mud.

Jeremiah 40:4

But today I’m setting you free from the chains on your wrists. Come with me to Babylon if you want to. I’ll take good care of you there. But if you don’t want to come, then don’t. The whole country lies in front of you. Go anywhere you want to.”

Lamentations 1:14

“My sins have been made into a heavy yoke. They were woven together by his hands. They have been placed on my neck. The Lord has taken away my strength. He has handed me over to my enemies. I can’t win the battle over them.

Lamentations 3:9

He has put up a stone wall to block my way. He has made my paths crooked.

Lamentations 5:5

Those who chase us are right behind us. We’re tired and can’t get any rest.

Daniel 9:12

The warnings you gave us and our rulers have come true. You have brought great trouble on us. Nothing like what has been done to Jerusalem has ever happened anywhere else on earth.

Hosea 2:6

So I will block her path with bushes that have thorns. I’ll build a wall around her. Then she can’t go to her lovers.