Lamentations 3:9 Parallel Translations
NASB: He has blocked my ways with hewn stone; He has made my paths crooked. (NASB ©1995)
GWT: He has blocked my way with cut stones and made my paths crooked.(GOD'S WORD®)
KJV: He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
ASV: He hath walled up my ways with hewn stone; he hath made my paths crooked.
BBE: He has put up a wall of cut stones about my ways, he has made my roads twisted.
DBY: He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
ERV: He hath fenced up my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
JPS: He hath enclosed my ways with hewn stone, He hath made my paths crooked.
WBS: He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
WEB: He has walled up my ways with cut stone; he has made my paths crooked.
YLT: He hath hedged my ways with hewn work, My paths He hath made crooked.
Lamentations 3:9 Cross References
XREF:Isaiah 63:17 Why, O LORD, do You cause us to stray from Your ways And harden our heart from fearing You? Return for the sake of Your servants, the tribes of Your heritage.

Hosea 2:6 "Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her way with thorns, And I will build a wall against her so that she cannot find her paths. (NASB ©1995)
Commentaries and Concordances
GSB: 3:9 He hath {d} inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
(d) And keeps me in hold as a prisoner.
WES: 3:9 Enclosed - He has defeated all my methods and counsels for security, by insuperable difficulties like walls of hewn stone. Crooked - Nay, God not only defeated their counsels, but made them fatal and pernicious to them.
MHC: 3:1-20 The prophet relates the more gloomy and discouraging part of his experience, and how he found support and relief. In the time of his trial the Lord had become terrible to him. It was an affliction that was misery itself; for sin makes the cup of affliction a bitter cup. The struggle between unbelief and faith is often very severe. But the weakest believer is wrong, if he thinks that his strength and hope are perished from the Lord.
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