Lamentations 3:9
He closed together my ways with square stones; he destroyed my paths. (He altogether enclosed my ways with square stones; he destroyed my paths.)
Wycliffe Modern Spelling
In The King James Version
He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
In Context
8But and when I cry and pray, he hath excluded my prayer.
10He is made (like) a bear setting ambush to me, (like) a lion in hid places.
Cross References
Job 19:8The Lord hath beset about my path, and I may not go, (or The Lord hath hedged about my path, so that I cannot go forth); and he hath set darknesses in my way.
Isaiah 63:17Lord, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways? thou hast made hard our heart, that we dreaded not thee? be thou converted, for thy servants, the lineages of thine heritage. (Lord, why hast thou let us go astray from thy ways? hast thou hardened our hearts, so that we do not fear thee? or so that we do not have reverence for thee? return thou for the sake of thy servants, the tribes of thy inheritance.)
Hosea 2:6For this thing, lo! I shall hedge thy way with thorns, and I shall hedge it (about) with a wall, and 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 →