Lamentations 3:9
He blocketh up my way with hewn stone; he maketh my paths crooked.
Noyes Bible
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 aloud, he shutteth out my prayer.
10A bear lying in wait hath he been to me, a lion in lurking-places.
Cross References
Job 19:8He hath fenced up my way, so that I cannot pass, And hath set darkness in my paths.
Isaiah 63:17Why, O Jehovah, dost thou suffer us to wander from thy ways, And harden our hearts against thy fear? Return, for thy servants' sake, The tribes of thine inheritance!
Hosea 2:6Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her way with thorns, And I will enclose her with a wall, So 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 →