Charles Spurgeon Commentary Lamentations 3:6-7

"He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead. He hath walled me about, that I cannot go forth; he hath made my chain heavy." — Lamentations 3:6-7 (ASV)

He has set me in dark places, as they that are dead of old. He has hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he has made my chain heavy.

Ah, dear friends, it is easy for some people to read such a passage as this, but there are others who have read it with aching brows and eyes red with weeping; and often, I have no doubt, as they have read the prophet's descriptions of the very sorrows they are themselves feeling, they have said, "Then after all, we are not alone in our griefs, and we may still be delivered even as Jeremiah was."

He has set me in dark places, as they that are dead of old. He has hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he has made my chain heavy.

Like a prisoner in his dungeon, who has to wear manacles and fetters.