Lamentations 3:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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 3:10-12
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    87%

    10He is like a bear waiting for me, like a lion in secret places.

    11By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste.

    12With his bow bent, he has made me the mark for his arrows.

  • Job 19:6-13
    8 verses
    86%

    6Be certain that it is God who has done me wrong, and has taken me in his net.

    7Truly, 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.

    8My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark.

    9He has put off my glory from me, and taken the crown from my head.

    10I am broken down by him on every side, and I am gone; my hope is uprooted like a tree.

    11His wrath is burning against me, and I am to him as one of his haters.

    12His armies come on together, they make their road high against me, and put up their tents round mine.

    13He has taken my brothers far away from me; they have seen my fate and have become strange to me.

  • Lam 3:2-8
    7 verses
    84%

    2By him I have been made to go in the dark where there is no light.

    3Truly against me his hand has been turned again and again all the day.

    4My flesh and my skin have been used up by him and my bones broken.

    5He has put up a wall against me, shutting me in with bitter sorrow.

    6He has kept me in dark places, like those who have been long dead.

    7He has put a wall round me, so that I am not able to go out; he has made great the weight of my chain.

    8Even when I send up a cry for help, he keeps my prayer shut out.

  • Job 33:10-11
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    80%

    10See, he is looking for something against me; in his eyes I am as one of his haters;

    11He puts chains on my feet; he is watching all my ways.

  • 53They have put an end to my life in the prison, stoning me with stones.

  • 3When my spirit is overcome, your eyes are on my goings; nets have been secretly placed in the way in which I go.

  • Lam 3:15-17
    3 verses
    77%

    15He has made my life nothing but pain, he has given me the bitter root in full measure.

    16By him my teeth have been broken with crushed stones, and I am bent low in the dust.

    17My soul is sent far away from peace, I have no more memory of good.

  • Job 30:11-13
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    77%

    11For 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.

    12The lines of his men of war put themselves in order, and make high their ways of destruction against me:

    13They have made waste my roads, with a view to my destruction; his bowmen come round about me;

  • 13From 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 16:11-14
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    11God gives me over to the power of sinners, sending me violently into the hands of evil-doers.

    12I 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.

    13His bowmen come round about me; their arrows go through my body without mercy; my life is drained out on the earth.

    14I am broken with wound after wound; he comes rushing on me like a man of war.

  • 5The 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.)

  • 6They 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.)

  • 10Ordering a fixed limit for it, with locks and doors;

  • 7The steps of his strength become short, and by his design destruction overtakes him.

  • 3The 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.

  • 27And you put chains on my feet, watching all my ways, and making a limit for my steps;

  • 5I have kept my feet in your ways, my steps have not been turned away.

  • 11My feet have gone in his steps; I have kept in his way, without turning to one side or to the other.

  • 19Truly God has made me low, even to the earth, and I have become like dust.

  • 9I 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;

  • 23To a man whose way is veiled, and who is shut in by God?

  • 4Does he not see my ways, and are not my steps all numbered?

  • 16Dogs have come round me: I am shut in by the band of evil-doers; they made wounds in my hands and feet.

  • 2But as for me, my feet had almost gone from under me; I was near to slipping;

  • 3The ploughmen were ploughing on my back; long were the wounds they made.

  • 17For I would be crushed by his storm, my wounds would be increased without cause.

  • 15Whose ways are not straight, and whose footsteps are turned to evil: