Lamentations 3:9 BSB

Lamentations 3:9

He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Inclosed - Or, hedged Lam 3:7. Hath, made crooked - Or, “hath” turned aside. A solid wall being built across the main road, Jeremiah turns aside into by-ways, but finds them turned aside, so that they lead him back after long wandering to the place from where he started.

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Original language & word study

5 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
גָּדַ֤ר	ga.Dar	he has walled up	H1443 →
דְּרָכַי֙	de.ra.Khai	ways my	H1870 →
בְּגָזִ֔ית	be.ga.Zit	with hewn [stone]	H1496 →
נְתִיבֹתַ֖י	ne.ti.vo.Tai	paths my	H5410 →
עִוָּֽה׃ ס	'i.Vah	he has made crooked	H5753 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Isaiah 30:28
His 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.
leads to
- Isaiah 37:29
  Because your rage and arrogance against Me have reached My ears, I will put My hook in your nose and My bit in your mouth; I will send you back the way you came.’
- Isaiah 11:4
  but with righteousness He will judge the poor, and with equity He will decide for the lowly of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of His mouth and slay the…
Through
Isaiah 63:17
Why, 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.
leads to
- Isaiah 6:10
  Make the hearts of this people calloused; deafen their ears and close their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.”
- Joshua 11:20
  For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts to engage Israel in battle, so that they would be set apart for destruction and would receive no mercy, being annihilated as the LORD…
- Ezekiel 14:7–9
  For when any Israelite or any foreigner dwelling in Israel separates himself from Me, sets up idols in his heart, and puts a wicked stumbling block before his face, and then comes to the…
- Deuteronomy 2:30
  But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass through, for the LORD your God had made his spirit stubborn and his heart obstinate, that He might deliver him into your hand, as…
Through
Hosea 2:6
Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her path with thorns; I will enclose her with a wall, so she cannot find her way.
leads to
- Job 19:8
  He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; He has veiled my paths with darkness.
- Lamentations 3:7–9
  He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed me down with chains.

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Where the connections lead

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The walk

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