Lamentations 3:7

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

He has walled me about so that I cannot escape; he has put heavy chains on me;

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 light given to a man whose way is hid, whom God has hedged in?

Psalm 88:8

Thou hast caused my companions to shun me; thou hast made me a thing of horror to them. I am shut in so that I cannot escape;

Psalm 88:9

my eye grows dim through sorrow. Every day I call upon thee, O Lord; I spread out my hands to thee.

Jeremiah 38:6

So they took Jeremiah and cast him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king's son, which was in the court of the guard, letting Jeremiah down by ropes. And there was no water in the cistern, but only mire, and Jeremiah sank in the mire.

Jeremiah 40:4

Now, behold, I release you today from the chains on your hands. If it seems good to you to come with me to Babylon, come, and I will look after you well; but if it seems wrong to you to come with me to Babylon, do not come. See, the whole land is before you; go wherever you think it good and right to go.

Lamentations 1:14

“My transgressions were bound into a yoke; by his hand they were fastened together; they were set upon my neck; he caused my strength to fail; the Lord gave me into the hands of those whom I cannot withstand.

Lamentations 3:9

he has blocked my ways with hewn stones, he has made my paths crooked.

Lamentations 5:5

With a yoke on our necks we are hard driven; we are weary, we are given no rest.

Daniel 9:12

He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us and against our rulers who ruled us, by bringing upon us a great calamity; for under the whole heaven there has not been done the like of what has been done against Jerusalem.

Hosea 2:6

Therefore I will hedge up her way with thorns; and I will build a wall against her, so that she cannot find her paths.