Lamentations 3:9
He has put stone blocks in my way and sends me down crooked paths.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
In Context
8Even when I keep on crying out for help, he refuses to listen to my prayer.
10He is a bear that lies in wait for me, a lion in hiding ready to attack,
Cross References
Job 19:8God has walled me in so I can't escape; he has plunged my path into darkness.
Isaiah 63:17Lord, why do you make us wander from your ways, and make us stubborn so we don't respect you? Come back to us for the sake of your servants, the tribes that belong to you.
Hosea 2:6That is why I am going to block her path with thorn bushes, and build a stone wall to stop her so she won't 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 →