Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
He hath hedged my ways with hewn work, My paths He hath made 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 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.
Interlinear
Gadar
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Lamentations 3:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel's Affliction
8 Also when I call and cry out, He hath shut out my prayer. 9 He hath hedged my ways with hewn work, My paths He hath made crooked. 10 A bear lying in wait He is to me, A lion in secret hiding-places.
Cross References
Isaiah 63:17
Why causest Thou us to wander, O Jehovah, from Thy ways? Thou hardenest our heart from Thy fear, Turn back for Thy servants' sake, The tribes of Thine inheritance.
Isaiah 30:28
And His breath is as an overflowing stream, Unto the neck it divideth, To sift nations with a sieve of vanity, And a bridle causing to err, Is on the jaws of the peoples.
Lamentations 3:11
My ways He is turning aside, and He pulleth me in pieces, He hath made me a desolation.
Hosea 2:6
Therefore, lo, I am hedging up thy way with thorns, And I have made for her a wall, And her paths she doth not find.