Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version He has barred my way with blocks of stone; he has made my paths crooked. New Living Translation He has blocked my way with a high stone wall; he has made my road crooked. English Standard Version he has blocked my ways with blocks of stones; he has made my paths crooked. Berean Standard Bible He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked. King James Bible He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked. New King James Version He has blocked my ways with hewn stone; He has made my paths crooked. New American Standard Bible He has blocked my ways with cut stone; He has twisted my paths. NASB 1995 He has blocked my ways with hewn stone; He has made my paths crooked. NASB 1977 He has blocked my ways with hewn stone; He has made my paths crooked. Legacy Standard Bible He has blocked my ways with cut stone; He has made my paths crooked. Amplified Bible He has blocked my ways with cut stone; He has made my paths crooked. Christian Standard Bible He has walled in my ways with blocks of stone; he has made my paths crooked. Holman Christian Standard Bible He has walled in my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked. American Standard Version He hath walled up my ways with hewn stone; he hath made my paths crooked. Aramaic Bible in Plain English He hedged my ways in with thorns and turned my steps aside Brenton Septuagint Translation DALETH. He has built up my ways, he has hedged my paths; Contemporary English Version God put big rocks in my way and made me follow a crooked path. Douay-Rheims Bible Ghimel. He hath shut up my ways with square stones, he hath turned my paths upside down. English Revised Version He hath fenced up my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked. GOD'S WORD® Translation He has blocked my way with cut stones and made my paths crooked. Good News Translation I stagger as I walk; stone walls block me wherever I turn. International Standard Version He impeded my way with blocks of stone, making my paths uneven. JPS Tanakh 1917 He hath enclosed my ways with hewn stone, He hath made my paths crooked. Literal Standard Version He has hedged my ways with hewn work, | My paths He has made crooked. Majority Standard Bible He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked. New American Bible He has hemmed in my ways with fitted stones, and made my paths crooked. NET Bible He has blocked every road I take with a wall of hewn stones; he has made every path impassable. New Revised Standard Version he has blocked my ways with hewn stones, he has made my paths crooked. New Heart English Bible He has walled up my ways with cut stone; he has made my paths crooked. Webster's Bible Translation He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked. World English Bible He has walled up my ways with cut stone. He has made my paths crooked. Young's Literal Translation He hath hedged my ways with hewn work, My paths He hath made crooked. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Jeremiah's Afflictions…8Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer. 9He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked. 10He is a bear lying in wait, a lion hiding in ambush.… Cross References Job 19:8 He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; He has veiled my paths with darkness. Isaiah 63:17 Why, O LORD, do You make us stray from Your ways and harden our hearts from fearing You? Return, for the sake of Your servants, the tribes of Your heritage. Lamentations 3:10 He is a bear lying in wait, a lion hiding in ambush. Hosea 2:6 Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her path with thorns; I will enclose her with a wall, so she cannot find her way. Treasury of Scripture He has enclosed my ways with hewn stone, he has made my paths crooked. made Lamentations 3:11 He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate. Isaiah 30:28 And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err. Isaiah 63:17 O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance. Jump to Previous Barred Blocked Blocks Crooked Cut Enclosed Hedged Hewn Inclosed Paths Roads Stone Stones Twisted Wall Walled Way Ways WorkJump to Next Barred Blocked Blocks Crooked Cut Enclosed Hedged Hewn Inclosed Paths Roads Stone Stones Twisted Wall Walled Way Ways WorkLamentations 3 1. The prophet bewails his own calamities22. By the mercies of God, he nourishes his hope 37. He acknowledges God's justice 55. He prays for deliverance 64. And vengeance on his enemies (9) He hath inclosed.--Yet another figure of resourceless misery follows. A massive wall of stone runs across the mourner's way. When he turns aside into by-paths, they are turned and twisted in labyrinthine confusion, and lead nowhither.Verse 9. - Inclosed; or, walled up; the participle of this verb is rendered "masons" in the Authorized Version of 2 Kings 12:12. Made my paths crooked; i.e. hath compelled me to walk in byways (comp. margin of the Authorized Version, Judges 5:6). But this hardly seems appropriate to the context. The semitas meas subvertit of the Vulgate is preferable. Render, therefore, turned my path upside down (comp. Isaiah 24:1). An analogous expression m Job 30:13 is rendered in the Authorized Version, "they mar my path." Thenius thinks that the destruction of a raised causeway is the figure intended; but the word is quite correctly rendered "paths;" see the note of Delitzsch on REFERENCE_WORK:Keil & DelitzschIsaiah 59:8. Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew He has barredגָּדַ֤ר (gā·ḏar) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 1443: To wall up or off, to build a wall my ways דְּרָכַי֙ (də·rā·ḵay) Noun - common plural construct | first person common singular Strong's 1870: A road, a course of life, mode of action with cut stones; בְּגָזִ֔ית (bə·ḡā·zîṯ) Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular Strong's 1496: Something cut, dressed stone He has made my paths נְתִיבֹתַ֖י (nə·ṯî·ḇō·ṯay) Noun - feminine plural construct | first person common singular Strong's 5410: Path, pathway crooked. עִוָּֽה׃ (‘iw·wāh) Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 5753: To bend, twist Links Lamentations 3:9 NIVLamentations 3:9 NLT Lamentations 3:9 ESV Lamentations 3:9 NASB Lamentations 3:9 KJV Lamentations 3:9 BibleApps.com Lamentations 3:9 Biblia Paralela Lamentations 3:9 Chinese Bible Lamentations 3:9 French Bible Lamentations 3:9 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Lamentations 3:9 He has walled up my ways (Lam. 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