Lamentations 3:9
He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked.
Berean Standard Bible
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 out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer.
10He is a bear lying in wait, a lion hiding in ambush.
Cross References
Job 19:8He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; He has veiled my paths with darkness.
Isaiah 63:17Why, O LORD, do You make us stray from Your ways and harden our hearts from fearing You? Return, for the sake of Your servants, the tribes of Your heritage.
Hosea 2:6Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her path with thorns; I will enclose her with a wall, so she cannot find 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 →