Lamentations 3:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁹He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.

Lamentations 3:9 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

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Isaiah 63:17
O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.
Hosea 2:6
Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.
Isaiah 30:28
And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.
Lamentations 3:11
He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Despair Despondency Discouragement

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-20)

The title of the Ps. 102:1-28 might very fitly be prefixed to this chapter— The prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and pours out his complaint before the Lord; for it is very feelingly and fluently that the complaint is here poured out. Let us observe the particulars of it. The prophet complains, 1. That God is angry. This gives both birth and bitterness to the affliction (Lam. 3:1):…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 9)

7-9. hedged--(Job 3:23; Ho 2:6). chain--literally, “chain of brass.”