Lamentations 3:9 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

he has blocked my ways with hewn stones; he has made my paths crooked.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, He hath made my paths crooked.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

He has enclosed my ways with hewn stone; He has made my paths crooked.

American Standard Version (1901)

He hath walled up my ways with hewn stone; he hath made my paths crooked.

Common English Bible

He walled in my paths with stonework; he made my routes crooked.

Catholic Public Domain Version

GHIMEL. He has enclosed my ways with square stones; he has subverted my paths.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Ghimel. He hath shut up my ways with square stones: he hath turned my paths upside down.

Lamentations 3:9 Cross References

Job 19:8

He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness upon my paths.

Isaiah 30:28

his breath is like an overflowing stream that reaches up to the neck— to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction and to place on the jaws of the peoples a bridle that leads them astray.

Isaiah 63:17

Why, O Lord, do you let us stray from your ways and let our heart harden, so that we do not fear you? Turn back for the sake of your servants, the tribes that are your heritage.

Lamentations 3:10

He is a bear lying in wait for me, a lion in hiding;

Lamentations 3:11

he led me off my way and tore me to pieces; he has made me desolate;

Hosea 2:6

Therefore I will hedge up her way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her so that she cannot find her paths.