Parallel Verses
Amplified
He has blocked my ways with cut stone;
He has made my paths crooked.
New American Standard Bible
He has made my paths crooked.
King James Version
He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
Holman Bible
He has made my paths crooked.
International Standard Version
He impeded my way with blocks of stone, making my paths uneven.
A Conservative Version
He has walled up my ways with hewn stone. He has made my paths crooked.
American Standard Version
He hath walled up my ways with hewn stone; he hath made my paths crooked.
Bible in Basic English
He has put up a wall of cut stones about my ways, he has made my roads twisted.
Darby Translation
He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
Julia Smith Translation
He walled up my ways with hewn stones, he made crooked my beaten paths.
King James 2000
He has enclosed my ways with hewn stone, he has made my paths crooked.
Lexham Expanded Bible
He has blocked my ways with dressed stones; he has made my paths crooked.
Modern King James verseion
He walled up my ways with cut stone; my paths are crooked.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
He hath stopped up my ways with four square stones, and made my paths crooked.
NET Bible
He has blocked every road I take with a wall of hewn stones; he has made every path impassable.
New Heart English Bible
He has walled up my ways with cut stone; he has made my paths crooked.
The Emphasized Bible
He hath walled in my ways with hewn stone, my paths, hath he caused to wind back.
Webster
He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
World English Bible
He has walled up my ways with cut stone; he has made my paths crooked.
Youngs Literal Translation
He hath hedged my ways with hewn work, My paths He hath made crooked.
Interlinear
Gadar
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Lamentations 3:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel's Affliction
8
Even when I cry out and shout for help,
He shuts out my prayer.
He has blocked my ways with cut stone;
He has made my paths crooked.
He is to me like a bear lying in wait,
And like a lion [hiding] in secret places.
Cross References
Isaiah 63:17
O Lord, why do You cause us to stray from Your ways
And harden our heart from fearing You [with reverence and awe]?
Return for Your servants’ sake, the tribes of Your heritage.
Isaiah 30:28
His breath is like an overflowing river,
Which reaches to the neck,
To sift the nations back and forth in a sieve [of disaster],
And to put in the jaws of the peoples the bridle which leads to ruin.
Lamentations 3:11
He has turned aside my ways and torn me in pieces;
He has made me desolate.
Hosea 2:6
“Therefore, behold, I [the Lord God] will hedge up her way with thorns;
And I will build a wall against her [shutting off her way] so that she cannot find her paths.