Parallel Verses
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 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 send up a cry for help, he shuts out my prayer.
9
He has made my paths crooked.
Cross References
Isaiah 63:17
O Jehovah, why do you let us wander from your ways and become so stubborn that we are unable to respect you? Return for the sake of your servants. They are the tribes that belong to you.
Isaiah 30:28
His breath is like an overflowing stream. It raises neck high and sifts the nations with a sieve of destruction. It places a bit in the mouths of the people to lead them astray.
Lamentations 3:11
He has turned me on one side. I have been pulled to bits and lay desolate.
Hosea 2:6
Behold, I (Jehovah) will fence her way with thorns. I will build a wall against her that she will not find her path.