Lamentations 3:9
He hath fenced up my ways with hewn stone, my paths hath he made crooked.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
In Context
8Also when I cry aloud and make entreaty, he shutteth out my prayer.
10A bear lying in wait is he to me, a lion in secret places.
Cross References
Job 19:8My road hath he fenced up, so that I cannot pass out; and on my paths he placeth darkness.
Isaiah 63:17Why hast thou let us go astray, O Lord, from thy ways, suffered our heart to be hardened against thy fear? Return for the sake of thy servants, the tribes of thy heritage.
Hosea 2:6(2:8) Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and I will close it up with a fence, 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 →