⁷ He has put a wall round me, so that I am not able to go out; he has made great the weight of my chain.

⁸ My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark.

²³ To a man whose way is veiled, and who is shut in by God?

⁶ So they took Jeremiah and put him into the water-hole of Malchiah, the king's son, in the place of the armed watchmen: and they let Jeremiah down with cords. And in the hole there was no water, but wet earth: and Jeremiah went down into the wet earth.

⁸ You have sent my friends far away from me; you have made me a disgusting thing in their eyes: I am shut up, and not able to come out.

⁶ For this cause I will put thorns in her road, building up a wall round her so that she may not go on her way.

¹² And he has given effect to his words which he said against us and against those who were our judges, by sending a great evil on us: for under all heaven there has not been done what has been done to Jerusalem.

⁵ Our attackers are on our necks: overcome with weariness, we have no rest.

⁹ He has put up a wall of cut stones about my ways, he has made my roads twisted.

¹⁴ A watch is kept on my sins; they are joined together by his hand, they have come on to my neck; he has made my strength give way: the Lord has given me up into the hands of those against whom I have no power.

⁴ Now see, this day I am freeing you from the chains which are on your hands. If it seems good to you to come with me to Babylon, then come, and I will keep an eye on you; but if it does not seem good to you to come with me to Babylon, then do not come: see, all the land is before you; if it seems good and right to you to go on living in the land,