Charles Spurgeon Commentary Lamentations 3:7

"He hath walled me about, that I cannot go forth; he hath made my chain heavy." — Lamentations 3:7 (ASV)

He has hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he has made my chain heavy.

"My way seems blocked up; nothing prospers with me." As the convict sometimes drags about his chain and has a ball at his foot, so the prophet felt as if God had clogged him with a heavy chain, so that he could not move because of its terrible weight.