◄ Lamentations 3:9 ►
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Good News Translation
I stagger as I walk; stone walls block me wherever I turn.

New Revised Standard Version
he has blocked my ways with hewn stones, he has made my paths crooked.

Contemporary English Version
God put big rocks in my way and made me follow a crooked path.

New American Bible
He has hemmed in my ways with fitted stones, and made my paths crooked.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Ghimel. He hath shut up my ways with square stones, he hath turned my paths upside down.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ghimel. He hath shut up my ways with square stones, he hath turned my paths upside down.

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Lamentations 3:11 Daleth. He hath turned aside my paths, and hath broken me in pieces, he hath made me desolate.

Isaiah 30:28 His breath as a torrent overflowing even to the midst of the neck, to destroy the nations unto nothing, and the bridle of error that was in the jaws of the people.

Isaiah 63:17 Why hast thou made us to err, O Lord, from thy ways: why hast thou hardened our heart, that we should not fear thee? return for the sake of thy servants, the tribes of thy inheritance.

Context
Jeremiah's Afflictions
…8Ghimel. Yea, and when I cry, and entreat, he hath shut out my prayer. 9Ghimel. He hath shut up my ways with square stones, he hath turned my paths upside down.10Daleth. He is become to me as a bear lying in wait: as a lion in secret places.…
Cross References
Job 19:8
He hath hedged in my path round about, and I cannot pass, and in my way he hath set darkness.

Isaiah 63:17
Why hast thou made us to err, O Lord, from thy ways: why hast thou hardened our heart, that we should not fear thee? return for the sake of thy servants, the tribes of thy inheritance.

Lamentations 3:10
Daleth. He is become to me as a bear lying in wait: as a lion in secret places.

Hosea 2:6
Wherefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and I will stop it up with a wall, and she shall not find her paths.

Lamentations 3:8
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