Verse 7
"He hath walled me about, that I cannot go forth;
he hath made my chain heavy,
Yea, when I cry, and call for help,
he shutteth out my prayer.
He hath walled up my ways with hewn stone;
he hath made my paths crooked.
He is unto me as a bear lying in wait,
as a lion in secret places.
He hath turned aside my ways,
he hath pulled me in pieces;
he hath made me desolate.
He hath bent his bow,
and set me as a mark for his arrow."
"He is unto me as a bear ... and a lion" (Lamentations 3:10). A similar use of these animals as examples of enmity are in Hosea 13:8 and in Amos 5:19.
"He hath set me as a mark for his arrow" (Lamentations 3:12). This is like Job's complaint in Job 16:13.
"This new simile arises out of the preceding one."[19] The progression is from the animals (the bear and the lion) to the hunter. Jeremiah felt himself as a sufferer from both, caught in the middle," as we might say.
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