Lamentations 3:7-9

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁷He has walled me about so that I cannot escape;
    he has put heavy chains on me;
⁸though I call and cry for help,
    he shuts out my prayer;
⁹he has blocked my ways with hewn stones,
    he has made my paths crooked.

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