Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
He hath walled up my ways with hewn stone; he hath 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.
Amplified
He has blocked my ways with cut stone;
He has 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 Yea, when I cry, and call for help, he shutteth out my prayer. 9 He hath walled up my ways with hewn stone; he hath made my paths crooked. 10 He is unto me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.
Cross References
Isaiah 63:17
O Jehovah, why dost thou make us to err from thy ways, and hardenest our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants'sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.
Isaiah 30:28
and his breath is as an overflowing stream, that reacheth even unto the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction: and a bridle that causeth to err'shall be in the jaws of the peoples.
Lamentations 3:11
He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate.
Hosea 2:6
Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she shall not find her paths.