Lamentations 3:9
He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
In Context
8Even when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
10He is unto me [as] a bear lying in wait, a lion in secret places.
Cross References
Job 19:8He hath hedged up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
Isaiah 63:17Why, O Jehovah, hast thou made us to err from thy ways, hast hardened 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 fence [her] in with a wall, 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 →