Lamentations 3:9
He has put up a wall of cut stones about my ways, he has made my roads twisted.
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Referenced Verses
- Isa 63:17 : 17 O Lord, why do you send us wandering from your ways, making our hearts hard, so that we have no fear of you? Come back, because of your servants, the tribes of your heritage.
- Lam 3:11 : 11 By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste.
- Hos 2:6 : 6 For this cause I will put thorns in her road, building up a wall round her so that she may not go on her way.
- Isa 30:28 : 28 And his breath is as an overflowing stream, coming up even to the neck, shaking the nations for their destruction, like the shaking of grain in a basket: and he will put a cord in the mouths of the people, turning them out of their way.
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- Lam 3:10-123 verses87%
10 He is like a bear waiting for me, like a lion in secret places.
11 By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste.
12 With his bow bent, he has made me the mark for his arrows.
- Job 19:6-138 verses86%
6 Be certain that it is God who has done me wrong, and has taken me in his net.
7 Truly, I make an outcry against the violent man, but there is no answer: I give a cry for help, but no one takes up my cause.
8 My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark.
9 He has put off my glory from me, and taken the crown from my head.
10 I am broken down by him on every side, and I am gone; my hope is uprooted like a tree.
11 His wrath is burning against me, and I am to him as one of his haters.
12 His armies come on together, they make their road high against me, and put up their tents round mine.
13 He has taken my brothers far away from me; they have seen my fate and have become strange to me.
- Lam 3:2-87 verses84%
2 By him I have been made to go in the dark where there is no light.
3 Truly against me his hand has been turned again and again all the day.
4 My flesh and my skin have been used up by him and my bones broken.
5 He has put up a wall against me, shutting me in with bitter sorrow.
6 He has kept me in dark places, like those who have been long dead.
7 He has put a wall round me, so that I am not able to go out; he has made great the weight of my chain.
8 Even when I send up a cry for help, he keeps my prayer shut out.
- Job 33:10-112 verses80%
10 See, he is looking for something against me; in his eyes I am as one of his haters;
11 He puts chains on my feet; he is watching all my ways.
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53 They have put an end to my life in the prison, stoning me with stones.
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3 When my spirit is overcome, your eyes are on my goings; nets have been secretly placed in the way in which I go.
- Lam 3:15-173 verses77%
15 He has made my life nothing but pain, he has given me the bitter root in full measure.
16 By him my teeth have been broken with crushed stones, and I am bent low in the dust.
17 My soul is sent far away from peace, I have no more memory of good.
- Job 30:11-133 verses77%
11 For he has made loose the cord of my bow, and put me to shame; he has sent down my flag to the earth before me.
12 The lines of his men of war put themselves in order, and make high their ways of destruction against me:
13 They have made waste my roads, with a view to my destruction; his bowmen come round about me;
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13 From on high he has sent fire into my bones, and it has overcome them: his net is stretched out for my feet, I am turned back by him; he has made me waste and feeble all the day.
- Job 16:11-144 verses75%
11 God gives me over to the power of sinners, sending me violently into the hands of evil-doers.
12 I was in comfort, but I have been broken up by his hands; he has taken me by the neck, shaking me to bits; he has put me up as a mark for his arrows.
13 His bowmen come round about me; their arrows go through my body without mercy; my life is drained out on the earth.
14 I am broken with wound after wound; he comes rushing on me like a man of war.
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5 The men of pride have put secret cords for my feet; stretching nets in my way, so that they may take me with their tricks. (Selah.)
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6 They have made ready a net for my steps; my soul is bent down; they have made a great hole before me, and have gone down into it themselves. (Selah.)
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10 Ordering a fixed limit for it, with locks and doors;
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7 The steps of his strength become short, and by his design destruction overtakes him.
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3 The evil man has gone after my soul; my life is crushed down to the earth: he has put me in the dark, like those who have long been dead.
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27 And you put chains on my feet, watching all my ways, and making a limit for my steps;
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5 I have kept my feet in your ways, my steps have not been turned away.
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11 My feet have gone in his steps; I have kept in his way, without turning to one side or to the other.
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19 Truly God has made me low, even to the earth, and I have become like dust.
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9 I am broken by his wrath, and his hate has gone after me; he has made his teeth sharp against me: my haters are looking on me with cruel eyes;
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23 To a man whose way is veiled, and who is shut in by God?
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4 Does he not see my ways, and are not my steps all numbered?
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16 Dogs have come round me: I am shut in by the band of evil-doers; they made wounds in my hands and feet.
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2 But as for me, my feet had almost gone from under me; I was near to slipping;
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3 The ploughmen were ploughing on my back; long were the wounds they made.
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17 For I would be crushed by his storm, my wounds would be increased without cause.
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15 Whose ways are not straight, and whose footsteps are turned to evil: