Lamentations 3:9
He hath walled up my ways with hewn stone; he hath made my paths crooked.
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Referenced Verses
- Isa 63:17 : 17 O Jehovah, why dost thou make us to err from thy ways, and hardenest our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.
- Lam 3:11 : 11 He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate.
- Hos 2:6 : 6 Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she shall not find her paths.
- Isa 30:28 : 28 and his breath is as an overflowing stream, that reacheth even unto the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction: and a bridle that causeth to err [shall be] in the jaws of the peoples.
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- Lam 3:10-123 verses87%
10He is unto me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.
11He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate.
12He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
- Job 19:6-138 verses86%
6Know now that God hath subverted me [in my cause], And hath compassed me with his net.
7Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry for help, but there is no justice.
8He hath walled up my way that I cannot pass, And hath set darkness in my paths.
9He hath stripped me of my glory, And taken the crown from my head.
10He hath broken me down on every side, and I am gone; And my hope hath he plucked up like a tree.
11He hath also kindled his wrath against me, And he counteth me unto him as [one of] his adversaries.
12His troops come on together, And cast up their way against me, And encamp round about my tent.
13He hath put my brethren far from me, And mine acquaintance are wholly estranged from me.
- Lam 3:2-87 verses84%
2He hath led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.
3Surely against me he turneth his hand again and again all the day.
4My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
5He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
6He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.
7He hath walled me about, that I cannot go forth; he hath made my chain heavy.
8Yea, when I cry, and call for help, he shutteth out my prayer.
- Job 33:10-112 verses80%
10Behold, he findeth occasions against me, He counteth me for his enemy:
11He putteth my feet in the stocks, He marketh all my paths.
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53They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone upon me.
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3When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, Thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walk Have they hidden a snare for me.
- Lam 3:15-173 verses77%
15He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath sated me with wormwood.
16He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he hath covered me with ashes.
17And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace; I forgat prosperity.
- Job 30:11-133 verses77%
11For he hath loosed his cord, and afflicted me; And they have cast off the bridle before me.
12Upon my right hand rise the rabble; They thrust aside my feet, And they cast up against me their ways of destruction.
13They mar my path, They set forward my calamity, [Even] men that have no helper.
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13From on high hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them; He hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: He hath made me desolate and faint all the day.
- Job 16:11-144 verses75%
11God delivereth me to the ungodly, And casteth me into the hands of the wicked.
12I was at ease, and he brake me asunder; Yea, he hath taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces: He hath also set me up for his mark.
13His archers compass me round about; He cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; He poureth out my gall upon the ground.
14He breaketh me with breach upon breach; He runneth upon me like a giant.
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6They have prepared a net for my steps; My soul is bowed down: They have digged a pit before me; They are fallen into the midst thereof themselves. {{Selah
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10And marked out for it my bound, And set bars and doors,
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7The steps of his strength shall be straitened, And his own counsel shall cast him down.
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27Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, And markest all my paths; Thou settest a bound to the soles of my feet:
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5My steps have held fast to thy paths, My feet have not slipped.
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11My foot hath held fast to his steps; His way have I kept, and turned not aside.
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19He hath cast me into the mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.
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9He hath torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me; He hath gnashed upon me with his teeth: Mine adversary sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
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23[ Why is light given] to a man whose way is hid, And whom God hath hedged in?
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4Doth not he see my ways, And number all my steps?
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16For dogs have compassed me: A company of evil-doers have inclosed me; They pierced my hands and my feet.
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2But as for me, my feet were almost gone; My steps had well nigh slipped.
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3The plowers plowed upon my back; They made long their furrows.
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17For he breaketh me with a tempest, And multiplieth my wounds without cause.
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15Who are crooked in their ways, And wayward in their paths: