Lamentations 3:9
He has hedged my ways with hewn work, || My paths He has made crooked.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
In Context
8Also when I call and cry out, || He has shut out my prayer.
10A bear lying in wait He [is] to me, || A lion in secret hiding places.
Cross References
Job 19:8He hedged up my way, and I do not pass over, || And He places darkness on my paths.
Isaiah 63:17Why cause us to wander, O YHWH, from Your ways? You harden our heart from Your fear, || Turn back for Your servants’ sake, || The tribes of Your inheritance.
Hosea 2:6Therefore, behold, I am hedging up your way with thorns, || And I have made a wall for her, || And her paths she does not find.
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 →