He has blocked my ways with hewn stone; He has made my paths crooked.

[Why is light given] to a man whose way is hidden, And whom God has hedged in?

He has fenced up my way, so that I cannot pass; And He has set darkness in my paths.

You have put away my acquaintances far from me; You have made me an abomination to them; [I am] shut up, and I cannot get out;

So they took Jeremiah and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the king's son, which [was] in the court of the prison, and they let Jeremiah down with ropes. And in the dungeon [there was] no water, but mire. So Jeremiah sank in the mire.

" Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, And wall her in, So that she cannot find her paths.

"The yoke of my transgressions was bound; They were woven together by His hands, [And] thrust upon my neck. He made my strength fail; The Lord delivered me into the hands of [those whom] I am not able to withstand.

[They] pursue at our heels; We labor [and] have no rest.

"And He has confirmed His words, which He spoke against us and against our judges who judged us, by bringing upon us a great disaster; for under the whole heaven such has never been done as what has been done to Jerusalem.