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Friday, July 18th, 2025
the Week of Proper 10 / Ordinary 15
the Week of Proper 10 / Ordinary 15
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Lamentations 3:9
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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.
Contemporary English Version
God put big rocks in my way and made me follow a crooked path.
God put big rocks in my way and made me follow a crooked path.
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 I'm the man who has seen trouble, trouble coming from the lash of God 's anger. He took me by the hand and walked me into pitch-black darkness. Yes, he's given me the back of his hand over and over and over again. 4He turned me into a scarecrow of skin and bones, then broke the bones. He hemmed me in, ganged up on me, poured on the trouble and hard times. He locked me up in deep darkness, like a corpse nailed inside a coffin. 7He shuts me in so I'll never get out, manacles my hands, shackles my feet. Even when I cry out and plead for help, he locks up my prayers and throws away the key. He sets up blockades with quarried limestone. He's got me cornered. 10He's a prowling bear tracking me down, a lion in hiding ready to pounce. He knocked me from the path and ripped me to pieces. When he finished, there was nothing left of me. He took out his bow and arrows and used me for target practice. 13He shot me in the stomach with arrows from his quiver. Everyone took me for a joke, made me the butt of their mocking ballads. He forced rotten, stinking food down my throat, bloated me with vile drinks. 16He ground my face into the gravel. He pounded me into the mud. I gave up on life altogether. I've forgotten what the good life is like. I said to myself, "This is it. I'm finished. God is a lost cause." 19I'll never forget the trouble, the utter lostness, the taste of ashes, the poison I've swallowed. I remember it all—oh, how well I remember— the feeling of hitting the bottom. But there's one other thing I remember, and remembering, I keep a grip on hope:
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
The Man said, "The Woman you gave me as a companion, she gave me fruit from the tree, and, yes, I ate it." God said to the Woman, "What is this that you've done?"
The Man said, "The Woman you gave me as a companion, she gave me fruit from the tree, and, yes, I ate it." God said to the Woman, "What is this that you've done?"
Genesis 3:13
"The serpent seduced me," she said, "and I ate."
"The serpent seduced me," she said, "and I ate."
Genesis 3:17
He told the Man: "Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree That I commanded you not to eat from, ‘Don't eat from this tree,' The very ground is cursed because of you; getting food from the ground Will be as painful as having babies is for your wife; you'll be working in pain all your life long. The ground will sprout thorns and weeds, you'll get your food the hard way, Planting and tilling and harvesting, sweating in the fields from dawn to dusk, Until you return to that ground yourself, dead and buried; you started out as dirt, you'll end up dirt."
He told the Man: "Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree That I commanded you not to eat from, ‘Don't eat from this tree,' The very ground is cursed because of you; getting food from the ground Will be as painful as having babies is for your wife; you'll be working in pain all your life long. The ground will sprout thorns and weeds, you'll get your food the hard way, Planting and tilling and harvesting, sweating in the fields from dawn to dusk, Until you return to that ground yourself, dead and buried; you started out as dirt, you'll end up dirt."
Genesis 3:20
The Man, known as Adam, named his wife Eve because she was the mother of all the living.
The Man, known as Adam, named his wife Eve because she was the mother of all the living.
Genesis 3:21
God made leather clothing for Adam and his wife and dressed them.
God made leather clothing for Adam and his wife and dressed them.
Genesis 4:9
God said to Cain, "Where is Abel your brother?" He said, "How should I know? Am I his babysitter?"
God said to Cain, "Where is Abel your brother?" He said, "How should I know? Am I his babysitter?"
Genesis 11:5
God came down to look over the city and the tower those people had built.
God came down to look over the city and the tower those people had built.
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 × ×ª×××ª× ×¢×× "semitas meas pervertit", Pagninus, Montanus, Vatablus, Calvin; "contorsit", Michealis.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Inclosed - Or, hedged Lamentations 3:7.
Hath, made crooked - Or, âhathâ 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.
