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Contemporary English Version
Lamentations 3:9
God put big rocks in my way and made me follow a crooked path.
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Christian Standard Bible®
He has walled in my ways with blocks of stone;he has made my paths crooked.
He has walled in my ways with blocks of stone;he has made my paths crooked.
Hebrew Names Version
He has walled up my ways with hewn stone; he has made my paths crooked.
He has walled up my ways with hewn stone; he has made my paths crooked.
King James Version
He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
English Standard Version
he has blocked my ways with blocks of stones; he has made my paths crooked.
he has blocked my ways with blocks of stones; he has made my paths crooked.
New American Standard Bible
He has blocked my ways with cut stone; He has twisted my paths.
He has blocked my ways with cut stone; He has twisted my paths.
New Century Version
He blocked my way with a stone wall and led me in the wrong direction.
He blocked my way with a stone wall and led me in the wrong direction.
Amplified Bible
He has blocked my ways with cut stone; He has made my paths crooked.
He has blocked my ways with cut stone; He has made my paths crooked.
World English Bible
He has walled up my ways with hewn stone; he has made my paths crooked.
He has walled up my ways with hewn stone; he has made my paths crooked.
Geneva Bible (1587)
He hath stopped vp my wayes with hewen stone, and turned away my paths.
He hath stopped vp my wayes with hewen stone, and turned away my paths.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
He has blocked my ways with hewn stone; He has made my paths crooked.
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.
He has blocked my ways with cut stone;He has made my paths crooked.
Berean Standard Bible
He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked.
He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked.
Complete Jewish Bible
He has barred my way with blocks of stone, he has made my paths crooked.
He has barred my way with blocks of stone, he has made my paths crooked.
Darby Translation
He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
Easy-to-Read Version
He has blocked up my path with stones. He has made my path crooked.
He has blocked up my path with stones. He has made my path crooked.
George Lamsa Translation
He has enclosed my ways with thorns, he has made my paths crooked.
He has enclosed my ways with thorns, he has made my paths crooked.
Good News Translation
I stagger as I walk; stone walls block me wherever I turn.
I stagger as I walk; stone walls block me wherever I turn.
Lexham English Bible
He has blocked my ways with dressed stones; he has made my paths crooked.
He has blocked my ways with dressed stones; he has made my paths crooked.
Literal Translation
He walled up my ways with cut stone; my paths are crooked.
He walled up my ways with cut stone; my paths are crooked.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
He hath stopped vp my wayes with foure squared stones, & made my pathes croked.
He hath stopped vp my wayes with foure squared stones, & made my pathes croked.
American Standard Version
He hath walled up my ways with hewn stone; he hath made my paths crooked.
He hath walled up my ways with hewn stone; he hath made my paths crooked.
Bible in Basic English
He has put up a wall of cut stones about my ways, he has made my roads twisted.
He has put up a wall of cut stones about my ways, he has made my roads twisted.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
He hath enclosed my ways with hewn stone, He hath made my paths crooked.
He hath enclosed my ways with hewn stone, He hath made my paths crooked.
King James Version (1611)
Hee hath inclosed my wayes with hewen stone: he hath made my pathes crooked.
Hee hath inclosed my wayes with hewen stone: he hath made my pathes crooked.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
He hath stopped vp my wayes with foure squared stones, and made my pathes crooked.
He hath stopped vp my wayes with foure squared stones, and made my pathes crooked.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
DALETH. He has built up my ways, he has hedged my paths;
DALETH. He has built up my ways, he has hedged my paths;
English Revised Version
He hath fenced up my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
He hath fenced up my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Gymel. He closide togidere my weies with square stoonus; he distriede my pathis.
Gymel. He closide togidere my weies with square stoonus; he distriede my pathis.
Update Bible Version
He has walled up my ways with cut stone; he has made my paths crooked.
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.
He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
New English Translation
He has blocked every road I take with a wall of hewn stones; he has made every path impassable.
He has blocked every road I take with a wall of hewn stones; he has made every path impassable.
New King James Version
He has blocked my ways with hewn stone; He has made my paths crooked.
He has blocked my ways with hewn 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.
He has blocked my way with a high stone wall; he has made my road crooked.
New Life Bible
He has stopped me with blocks of stone. He has made my paths no longer straight.
He has stopped me with blocks of stone. He has made my paths no longer straight.
New Revised Standard
he has blocked my ways with hewn stones, he has made my paths crooked.
he has blocked my ways with hewn stones, he has made my paths crooked.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
He hath walled in my ways with hewn stone, my paths, hath he caused to wind back.
He hath walled in my ways with hewn stone, my paths, hath he caused to wind back.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Ghimel. He hath shut up my ways with square stones, he hath turned my paths upside down.
Ghimel. He hath shut up my ways with square stones, he hath turned my paths upside down.
Revised Standard Version
he has blocked my ways with hewn stones, he has made my paths crooked.
he has blocked my ways with hewn stones, he has made my paths crooked.
Young's Literal Translation
He hath hedged my ways with hewn work, My paths He hath made crooked.
He hath hedged my ways with hewn work, My paths He hath made crooked.
Contextual Overview
1 The Prophet Speaks: I have suffered much because God was angry. 2 He chased me into a dark place, where no light could enter. 3 I am the only one he punishes over and over again, without ever stopping. 4 God caused my skin and flesh to waste away, and he crushed my bones. 5 He attacked and surrounded me with hardships and trouble; 6 he forced me to sit in the dark like someone long dead. 7 God built a fence around me that I cannot climb over, and he chained me down. 8 Even when I shouted and prayed for help, he refused to listen. 9 God put big rocks in my way and made me follow a crooked path. 10 God was like a bear or a lion waiting in ambush for me;
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
made: Lamentations 3:11, Isaiah 30:28, Isaiah 63:17
Reciprocal: Job 3:23 - hedged in Job 19:8 - fenced Job 36:8 - if Lamentations 3:7 - hedged
Cross-References
Genesis 3:12
"It was the woman you put here with me," the man said. "She gave me some of the fruit, and I ate it."
"It was the woman you put here with me," the man said. "She gave me some of the fruit, and I ate it."
Genesis 3:13
The Lord God then asked the woman, "What have you done?" "The snake tricked me," she answered. "And I ate some of that fruit."
The Lord God then asked the woman, "What have you done?" "The snake tricked me," she answered. "And I ate some of that fruit."
Genesis 3:17
The Lord said to the man, "You listened to your wife and ate fruit from that tree. And so, the ground will be under a curse because of what you did. As long as you live, you will have to struggle to grow enough food.
The Lord said to the man, "You listened to your wife and ate fruit from that tree. And so, the ground will be under a curse because of what you did. As long as you live, you will have to struggle to grow enough food.
Genesis 3:19
You will have to sweat to earn a living; you were made out of soil, and you will once again turn into soil."
You will have to sweat to earn a living; you were made out of soil, and you will once again turn into soil."
Genesis 3:20
The man Adam named his wife Eve because she would become the mother of all who live.
The man Adam named his wife Eve because she would become the mother of all who live.
Genesis 3:21
Then the Lord God made clothes out of animal skins for the man and his wife.
Then the Lord God made clothes out of animal skins for the man and his wife.
Genesis 4:9
Afterwards the Lord asked Cain, "Where is Abel?" "How should I know?" he answered. "Am I supposed to look after my brother?"
Afterwards the Lord asked Cain, "Where is Abel?" "How should I know?" he answered. "Am I supposed to look after my brother?"
Genesis 11:5
But when the Lord came down to look at the city and the tower,
But when the Lord came down to look at the city and the tower,
Genesis 16:8
and asked, "Hagar, where have you come from, and where are you going?" She answered, "I'm running away from Sarai, my owner."
and asked, "Hagar, where have you come from, and where are you going?" She answered, "I'm running away from Sarai, my owner."
Gill's Notes on the Bible
He hath enclosed my ways with hewn stone,.... Not with a hedge of thorns, or mud walls, but with a fence of stones; and these not rough, and laid loosely together, but hewn and put in order, and well cemented. The Targum is, with marble hewn stones, which are harder than common stones, and not so easily demolished; this may respect the case of the prophet in prison, and in the dungeon, and in Jerusalem, when besieged; or in general his afflictive state, from whence he had no prospect of deliverance; or the state of the Jews in captivity, from which there was no likelihood of a release;
he hath made my paths crooked; or, "perverted my ways" h; so that he could not find his way out, when he attempted it; he got into a way which led him wrong; everything went cross and against him, and all his measures were disconcerted, and his designs defeated; no one step he took prospered.
h נתיבתי עוה "semitas meas pervertit", Pagninus, Montanus, Vatablus, Calvin; "contorsit", Michealis.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Inclosed - Or, hedged Lamentations 3:7.
Hath, made crooked - Or, “hath” turned aside. A solid wall being built across the main road, Jeremiah turns aside into by-ways, but finds them turned aside, so that they lead him back after long wandering to the place from where he started.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 9. He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone — He has put insuperable obstacles in my way; and confounded all my projects of deliverance and all my expectations of prosperity.
