Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version He has barred my way with blocks of stone; he has made my paths crooked. New Living Translation He has blocked my way with a high stone wall; he has made my road crooked. English Standard Version he has blocked my ways with blocks of stones; he has made my paths crooked. Berean Standard Bible He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked. King James Bible He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked. New King James Version He has blocked my ways with hewn stone; He has made my paths crooked. New American Standard Bible He has blocked my ways with cut stone; He has twisted my paths. NASB 1995 He has blocked my ways with hewn stone; He has made my paths crooked. NASB 1977 He has blocked my ways with hewn stone; He has made my paths crooked. Legacy Standard Bible He has blocked my ways with cut stone; He has made my paths crooked. Amplified Bible He has blocked my ways with cut stone; He has made my paths crooked. Christian Standard Bible He has walled in my ways with blocks of stone; he has made my paths crooked. Holman Christian Standard Bible He has walled in my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked. American Standard Version He hath walled up my ways with hewn stone; he hath made my paths crooked. Contemporary English Version God put big rocks in my way and made me follow a crooked path. English Revised Version He hath fenced up my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked. GOD'S WORD® Translation He has blocked my way with cut stones and made my paths crooked. Good News Translation I stagger as I walk; stone walls block me wherever I turn. International Standard Version He impeded my way with blocks of stone, making my paths uneven. Majority Standard Bible He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has 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. Webster's Bible Translation 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. Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionHe has hedged my ways with hewn work, "" My paths He has made crooked. Young's Literal Translation He hath hedged my ways with hewn work, My paths He hath made crooked. Smith's Literal Translation He walled up my ways with hewn stones, he made crooked my beaten paths. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleGhimel. He hath shut up my ways with square stones, he hath turned my paths upside down. Catholic Public Domain Version GHIMEL. He has enclosed my ways with square stones; he has subverted my paths. New American Bible He has hemmed in my ways with fitted stones, and made my paths crooked. New Revised Standard Version he has blocked my ways with hewn stones, he has made my paths crooked. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleHe has enclosed my ways with thorns, he has made my paths crooked. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated He hedged my ways in with thorns and turned my steps aside OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917He hath enclosed my ways with hewn stone, He hath made my paths crooked. Brenton Septuagint Translation DALETH. He has built up my ways, he has hedged my paths; Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Jeremiah's Afflictions…8Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer. 9He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked. 10He is a bear lying in wait, a lion hiding in ambush.… Cross References Isaiah 63:17 Why, O LORD, do You make us stray from Your ways and harden our hearts from fearing You? Return, for the sake of Your servants, the tribes of Your heritage. Job 19:8 He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; He has veiled my paths with darkness. Hosea 2:6 Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her path with thorns; I will enclose her with a wall, so she cannot find her way. Proverbs 3:6 in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight. Jeremiah 18:15 Yet My people have forgotten Me. They burn incense to worthless idols that make them stumble in their ways, leaving the ancient roads to walk on rutted bypaths instead of on the highway. Isaiah 59:8 The way of peace they have not known, and there is no justice in their tracks. They have turned them into crooked paths; no one who treads on them will know peace. Psalm 25:4 Show me Your ways, O LORD; teach me Your paths. Psalm 119:105 Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. Isaiah 30:21 And whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear this command behind you: “This is the way. Walk in it.” Jeremiah 14:10 This is what the LORD says about this people: “Truly they love to wander; they have not restrained their feet. So the LORD does not accept them; He will now remember their iniquity and punish them for their sins.” Matthew 7:13-14 Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. / But small is the gate and narrow the way that leads to life, and only a few find it. John 14:6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. Romans 3:16-17 ruin and misery lie in their wake, / and the way of peace they have not known.” 1 Peter 2:8 and, “A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense.” They stumble because they disobey the word—and to this they were appointed. 2 Corinthians 4:4 The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. Treasury of Scripture He has enclosed my ways with hewn stone, he has made my paths crooked. made Lamentations 3:11 He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate. Isaiah 30:28 And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err. Isaiah 63:17 O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance. Jump to Previous Barred Blocked Blocks Crooked Cut Enclosed Hedged Hewn Inclosed Paths Roads Stone Stones Twisted Wall Walled Way Ways WorkJump to Next Barred Blocked Blocks Crooked Cut Enclosed Hedged Hewn Inclosed Paths Roads Stone Stones Twisted Wall Walled Way Ways WorkLamentations 3 1. The prophet bewails his own calamities22. By the mercies of God, he nourishes his hope 37. He acknowledges God's justice 55. He prays for deliverance 64. And vengeance on his enemies He has barred my ways The phrase "He has barred my ways" suggests a divine intervention that restricts or obstructs the path of the speaker. In the Hebrew text, the word used here can be associated with the idea of enclosing or shutting in. This imagery reflects a sense of being trapped or hindered by God Himself. Historically, this can be seen as a reflection of the Babylonian siege of Jerusalem, where the people felt their freedom and movement were severely restricted. Spiritually, it can be interpreted as a period of divine discipline or testing, where God allows obstacles to refine and redirect His people. with cut stones He has made my paths crooked Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew He has barredגָּדַ֤ר (gā·ḏar) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 1443: To wall up or off, to build a wall my ways דְּרָכַי֙ (də·rā·ḵay) Noun - common plural construct | first person common singular Strong's 1870: A road, a course of life, mode of action with cut stones; בְּגָזִ֔ית (bə·ḡā·zîṯ) Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular Strong's 1496: Something cut, dressed stone He has made my paths נְתִיבֹתַ֖י (nə·ṯî·ḇō·ṯay) Noun - feminine plural construct | first person common singular Strong's 5410: Path, pathway crooked. עִוָּֽה׃ (‘iw·wāh) Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 5753: To bend, twist Links Lamentations 3:9 NIVLamentations 3:9 NLT Lamentations 3:9 ESV Lamentations 3:9 NASB Lamentations 3:9 KJV Lamentations 3:9 BibleApps.com Lamentations 3:9 Biblia Paralela Lamentations 3:9 Chinese Bible Lamentations 3:9 French Bible Lamentations 3:9 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Lamentations 3:9 He has walled up my ways (Lam. 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