Lamentations 3:9
He hath hedged my ways with hewn work, My paths He hath made crooked.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
In Context
8Also when I call and cry out, He hath shut out my prayer.
10A bear lying in wait He [is] to me, A lion in secret hiding-places.
Cross References
Job 19:8My way He hedged up, and I pass not over, And on my paths darkness He placeth.
Isaiah 63:17Why causest Thou us to wander, O Jehovah, from Thy ways? Thou hardenest our heart from Thy fear, Turn back for Thy servants' sake, The tribes of Thine inheritance.
Hosea 2:6Therefore, lo, I am hedging up thy way with thorns, And I have made for her a wall, And her paths she doth 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 →