Lamentations 3:7 Cross References - BSB

⁷ He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed me down with chains.

²³ Why is life given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?

⁸ He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; He has veiled my paths with darkness.

⁸ You have removed my friends from me; You have made me repulsive to them; I am confined and cannot escape.

⁶ So they took Jeremiah and dropped him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son, which was in the courtyard of the guard. They lowered Jeremiah with ropes into the cistern, which had no water but only mud, and Jeremiah sank down into the mud.

⁴ But now, behold, I am freeing you today from the chains that were on your wrists. If it pleases you to come with me to Babylon, then come, and I will take care of you. But if it seems wrong to you to come with me to Babylon, go no farther. Look, the whole land is before you. Wherever it seems good and right to you, go there.”

¹⁴ My transgressions are bound into a yoke, knit together by His hand; they are draped over my neck, and the Lord has broken my strength. He has delivered me into the hands of those I cannot withstand.

⁹ He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked.

⁵ We are closely pursued; we are weary and find no rest.

¹² You have carried out the words spoken against us and against our rulers by bringing upon us a great disaster. For under all of heaven, nothing has ever been done like what has been done to Jerusalem.

⁶ Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her path with thorns; I will enclose her with a wall, so she cannot find her way.