New King James Version

Lamentations 3:5-10 New King James Version (NKJV)

5. He has besieged meAnd surrounded me with bitterness and woe.

6. He has set me in dark placesLike the dead of long ago.

7. He has hedged me in so that I cannot get out;He has made my chain heavy.

8. Even when I cry and shout,He shuts out my prayer.

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

10. He has been to me a bear lying in wait,Like a lion in ambush.