Lamentations 3:9
He has put up a wall of cut stones about my ways, he has made my roads twisted.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
In Context
8Even when I send up a cry for help, he keeps my prayer shut out.
10He is like a bear waiting for me, like a lion in secret places.
Cross References
Job 19:8My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark.
Isaiah 63:17O Lord, why do you send us wandering from your ways, making our hearts hard, so that we have no fear of you? Come back, because of your servants, the tribes of your heritage.
Hosea 2:6For this cause I will put thorns in her road, building up a wall round her so that she may not go on her way.
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 →