Text -- Lamentations 3:7 (NET)

3:7 ג(Gimel) He has walled me in so that I cannot get out; he has weighted me down with heavy prison chains.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Lam 3:7

¹ tn The verb גָּדַר (garad) has a two-fold range of meanings: (1) “to build up a wall” with stones, and (2) “to block a road” with a wall of stones. The imagery depicts the Lord building a wall to seal off personified Jerusalem with no way of escape out of the city, or the Lord blocking the road of escape. Siege imagery prevails in 3:4-6, but 3:7-9 pictures an unsuccessful escape that is thwarted due to blocked roads in 3:7 and 3:9.

² tn Heb “he has made heavy my chains.”