Lamentations Chapter 3 verse 9 Holy Bible
He hath walled up my ways with hewn stone; he hath made my paths crooked.
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He has put up a wall of cut stones about my ways, he has made my roads twisted.
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He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
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He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
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He has walled up my ways with hewn stone; he has made my paths crooked.
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He hath hedged my ways with hewn work, My paths He hath made crooked.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 9. - Inclosed; or, walled up; the participle of this verb is rendered "masons" in the Authorized Version of 2 Kings 12:12. Made my paths crooked; i.e. hath compelled me to walk in byways (comp. margin of the Authorized Version, Judges 5:6). But this hardly seems appropriate to the context. The semitas meas subvertit of the Vulgate is preferable. Render, therefore, turned my path upside down (comp. Isaiah 24:1). An analogous expression m Job 30:13 is rendered in the Authorized Version, "they mar my path." Thenius thinks that the destruction of a raised causeway is the figure intended; but the word is quite correctly rendered "paths;" see the note of Delitzsch on REFERENCE_WORK:Keil & DelitzschIsaiah 59:8.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(9) He hath inclosed.--Yet another figure of resourceless misery follows. A massive wall of stone runs across the mourner's way. When he turns aside into by-paths, they are turned and twisted in labyrinthine confusion, and lead nowhither.
