Lamentations 3:9
He hath enclosed my ways with hewn stone, He hath made my paths crooked.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
In Context
8Yea, when I cry and call for help, He shutteth out my prayer.
10He is unto me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.
Cross References
Job 19:8He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and hath set darkness in my paths.
Isaiah 63:17O LORD, why dost Thou make us to err from Thy ways, and hardenest our heart from Thy fear? Return for Thy servants' sake, the tribes of Thine inheritance.
Hosea 2:6(2-8) Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and I will make a wall against her, 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 →