Lamentations 3:9
He hath walled in my ways with hewn stone, my paths, hath he caused to wind back.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
In Context
8Yea, when I make outcry and implore, he hath shut out my prayer;
10A bear lying in wait, he is to me, a lion, in secret places;
Cross References
Job 19:8My way, hath he walled up, that I cannot pass, and, upon my paths, hath he made darkness rest;
Isaiah 63:17Wherefore shouldst thou suffer us to wander O Yahweh, from thy ways? Wherefore shouldst thou let us harden our heart past revering thee? Return thou for the sake of Thy servants, The tribes thou thyself hast inherited.
Hosea 2:6Therefore, behold me! hedging up her way, with thorns,—and I will wall her in, and, her footpaths, shall she 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 →