Lamentations 3:9 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁹ he has blocked my ways with hewn stones, he has made my paths crooked.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, He hath made my paths crooked.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ He has enclosed my ways with hewn stone; He has made my paths crooked.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ He hath walled up my ways with hewn stone; he hath made my paths crooked.

Common English Bible

⁹ He walled in my paths with stonework; he made my routes crooked.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ GHIMEL. He has enclosed my ways with square stones; he has subverted my paths.

Lamentations 3:9 Cross References

Isaiah 63:17

O Lord, why dost thou make us err from thy ways and harden our heart, so that we fear thee not? Return for the sake of thy servants, the tribes of thy heritage.

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.

Lamentations 3:11

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

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 astray.

Job 19:8

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

Lamentations 3:10

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