The Prophet’s Afflictions
Lamentations 3:9
In 11 translations
- BSB
- He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked.
- KJV
- He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
- WEB
- He has walled up my ways with cut stone. He has made my paths crooked.
- ASV
- He hath walled up my ways with hewn stone; he hath made my paths crooked.
- LSV
- He has hedged my ways with hewn work, || My paths He has made crooked.
- YLT
- He hath hedged my ways with hewn work, My paths He hath made crooked.
- DBY
- He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
- DRC
- Ghimel. He hath shut up my ways with square stones, he hath turned my paths upside down.
- GNV
- He hath stopped vp my wayes with hewen stone, and turned away my paths.
- JPS
- He hath enclosed my ways with hewn stone, He hath made my paths crooked.
- LXXE
- Daleth. He has built up my ways, he has hedged my paths;
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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- גָּדַ֤ר דְּרָכַי֙ בְּגָזִ֔ית נְתִיבֹתַ֖י עִוָּֽה׃
- LXX-Br
- ΔΑΛΕΘ. Ἀνῳκοδόμησεν ὁδούς μου, ἐνέφραξε τρίβους μου,
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).
Cross-references most cited first
- Isaiah 63:17Why, 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.
- Hosea 2:6Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her path with thorns; I will enclose her with a wall, so she cannot find her way.
- Isaiah 30:28His breath is like a rushing torrent that rises to the neck. He comes to sift the nations in a sieve of destruction; He bridles the jaws of the peoples to lead them astray.
- Lamentations 3:11He forced me off my path and tore me to pieces; He left me without help.
From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).