Lamentations 3:9 continues the same metaphor: God blocks paths with stone, reinforcing the image of imprisonment.

Lamentations 3:5 says God besieged and surrounded him—immediately before, reinforcing the walled-in experience.

Lamentations 1:14 describes sins as a yoke and chains, directly paralleling the chains here—both depict divine punishment binding the nation.

Job 3:23 asks why light is given to one 'whom God has hedged in' — same idea of God confining the sufferer.

Job 19:8 says God 'has walled up my way, so that I cannot pass' — nearly identical complaint to being walled in.

Psalm 88:8 laments 'I am shut in so that I cannot escape' — directly parallels the feeling of being trapped.

In Hosea 2:6, God uses the same 'hedging in' imagery—blocking Israel's way with thorns—to describe judgment on unfaithfulness.

Psalm 107:10 explicitly describes prisoners in iron chains—direct verbal parallel to being weighed down with chains.

2 Chronicles 33:11 shows Manasseh literally bound with bronze shackles—a historical precedent of God using enemies to chain sinners.