Lamentations 3:9
Ghimel. He hath shut up my ways with square stones, he hath turned my paths upside down.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
In Context
8Ghimel. Yea, and when I cry, and entreat, he hath shut out my prayer.
10Daleth. He is become to me as a bear lying in wait: as a lion in secret places.
Cross References
Job 19:8He hath hedged in my path round about, and I cannot pass, and in my way he hath set darkness.
Isaiah 63:17Why hast thou made us to err, O Lord, from thy ways: why hast thou hardened our heart, that we should not fear thee? return for the sake of thy servants, the tribes of thy inheritance.
Hosea 2:6Wherefore behold I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and I will stop it up with a wall, and 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 →