Lamentations 3:9
He hath barred my ways with hewn stone, 1 He hath made my paths crooked. 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
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 and call out, 1 He shutteth out my tefillah. 1
10He was unto me like a dov (bear) lying in wait, 1 and like an aryeh in mistarim (hiding places). 1
Cross References
Job 19:8He hath fenced around my way that I cannot pass, 1 and set choshech in my paths. 1
Isaiah 63:17Hashem, why hast Thou made us to go astray from Thy drakhim, 1 and hardened libenu (our hearts) from fearing Thee? 1 Shuv (return) l'ma'an (for the sake of) Avadeicha (Thy servants), 1 Shivtei Nachalatecha (the Tribes of Thine Inheritance). 1
Hosea 2:6And I will not have mercy upon her banim; 1 for they are the bnei zenunim. 1
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 →