Lamentations 3:9
He has enclosed my ways with hewn stone, he has made my paths crooked.
Updated King James 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 cry and shout, he shuts out my prayer.
10He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.
Cross References
Job 19:8He has fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness in my paths.
Isaiah 63:17O LORD, why have you made us to go astray from your ways, and hardened our heart from your fear? Return for your servants' sake, the tribes of yours inheritance.
Hosea 2:6Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and make a wall, 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 →