Lamentations 3:7 meaning and explanation
He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed me down with chains.
Lamentations 3:7, Berean Standard Bible
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The speaker is an unnamed sufferer, traditionally taken as the prophet Jeremiah, giving voice to Jerusalem's grief after the city fell. In the verses before, he pictures God as an attacker rather than a comforter: driven into darkness, worn down, besieged.
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