Lamentations 3:9
Modern Translations
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 Study Bible
He has barred my ways with cut stones; 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.

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.

Contemporary English Version
God put big rocks in my way and made me follow a crooked path.

Good News Translation
I stagger as I walk; stone walls block me wherever I turn.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
He has blocked my way with cut stones and made my paths crooked.

International Standard Version
He impeded my way with blocks of stone, making my paths uneven.

NET Bible
He has blocked every road I take with a wall of hewn stones; he has made every path impassable.
Classic Translations
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.

King James 2000 Bible
He has enclosed my ways with hewn stone, he has made my paths crooked.

New Heart English Bible
He has walled up my ways with cut stone; he has made my paths crooked.

World English Bible
He has walled up my ways with cut stone; he has made my paths crooked.

American King James Version
He has enclosed 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.

A Faithful Version
He has blocked my ways with cut stone; He has made my paths crooked.

Darby Bible Translation
He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.

English Revised Version
He hath fenced up my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.

Webster's Bible Translation
He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
He hath stopped vp my wayes with hewen stone, and turned away my paths.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
He hath stopped vp my wayes with foure squared stones, and made my pathes crooked.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
He hath stopped vp my wayes with foure squared stones, & made my pathes croked.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
He 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 Bible
Ghimel. 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.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
He hedged my ways in with thorns and turned my steps aside

Lamsa Bible
He has enclosed my ways with thorns, he has made my paths crooked.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
He 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;
















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