Lamentations 3:9
Daleth. He has built up my ways, he has hedged my paths;
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
In Context
8Gimel. Yea, though I cry and shout, he shuts out my prayer.
10he has troubled me, as a she-bear lying in wait: he is to me as a lion in secret places.
Cross References
Job 19:8I am fenced round about, and can by no means escape: he has set darkness before my face.
Isaiah 63:17Why hast thou caused us to err, O Lord, from thy way? and hast hardened our hearts, that we should not fear thee? Return for thy servants' sake, for the sake of the tribes of thine inheritance,
Hosea 2:6And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they are children of fornication.
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 →