Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
He walled up my ways with cut stone; my paths are 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.
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 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 Also when I cry and shout, He shuts out my prayer. 9 He walled up my ways with cut stone; my paths are crooked. 10 He was a bear lying in wait for me, a lion in secret places.
Cross References
Isaiah 63:17
O Jehovah, why have You made us wander from Your ways. You harden our heart from Your fear? For Your servants' sake, return the tribes of Your inheritance.
Isaiah 30:28
And like an overflowing stream, His breath shall reach to the middle of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity. And a bridle will be in the jaws of the people, causing them to go astray.
Lamentations 3:11
He has turned my ways aside and torn me in pieces. He made me desolate.
Hosea 2:6
Therefore behold, I will hedge your way with thorns, and wall up her wall, that she shall not find her paths.