Lamentations 3:9
He has walled up my ways with cut stone. He has made my paths crooked.
World English Bible British
In The King James Version
He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
In Context
8Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.
10He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in hiding.
Cross References
Job 19:8He has walled up my way so that I can’t pass, and has set darkness in my paths.
Isaiah 63:17O LORD, why do you make us wander from your ways, and harden our heart from your fear? Return for your servants’ sake, the tribes of your inheritance.
Hosea 2:6Therefore behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she can’t find her way.
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 →