Lamentations 3:9

Lamentations chapter 3 · verse 9 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

World English Bible · 2000

He hath walled up my ways with hewn stone; he hath made my paths crooked.

King James Version · 1611

He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.

American Standard Version · 1901

He hath walled up my ways with hewn stone; he hath made my paths crooked.

v.8Yea, when I cry, and call for help, he shutteth out my prayer.

v.9This passage

v.10He is unto me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Hosea 2:6
Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she shall not find her paths.
Isaiah 30:28
and his breath is as an overflowing stream, that reacheth even unto the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction: and a bridle that causeth to err shall be in the jaws of the peoples.
Isaiah 63:17
O Jehovah, why dost thou make us to err from thy ways, and hardenest our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants’ sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.
Lamentations 3:11
He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate.