Lamentations 3:9
He has walled up my ways with hewn stone. He has made my paths crooked.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
In Context
8Yea, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.
10He is to me as a bear laying in wait, as a lion in concealed places.
Cross References
Job 19:8He has walled up my way that I cannot pass, and has set darkness in my paths.
Isaiah 63:17O LORD, why do thou make us to err from thy ways, and harden our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.
Hosea 2:6Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she shall not find her paths.
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 3:2-21
The Prophet's Personal Affliction. ( b. c. 588.) 1 I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. 2 He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light. 3 Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day. 4 My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones. 5 He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail. 6 He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old. 7 He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath… Read the whole commentary →