Lamentations 3:9
GHIMEL. He has enclosed my ways with square stones; he has subverted my paths.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
In Context
8GHIMEL. Yet even when I cry out and beg, he excludes my prayer.
10DALETH. He has become to me like a bear lying in ambush, like a lion in hiding.
Cross References
Job 19:8He has hemmed in my path, and I cannot pass; he has added darkness to my difficult path.
Isaiah 63:17Why have you allowed us to stray from your ways, O Lord? Why have you hardened our heart, so that we do not fear you? Return, for the sake of your servants, the tribes of your inheritance.
Hosea 2:6Because of this, behold, I will fence in your way with thorns, and I will surround it with a wall, and she will 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 →