Lamentations 3:9

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 63:17 : 17 Why, LORD, do you make us wander from your ways and harden our hearts so we do not revere you? Return for the sake of your servants, the tribes that are your inheritance.
  • Lam 3:11 : 11 He has turned aside my ways and torn me to pieces; He has made me desolate.
  • Hos 2:6 : 6 I will not show mercy to her children, for they are the children of unfaithfulness.
  • Isa 30:28 : 28 His breath is like a rushing torrent that rises to the neck. He will sift the nations with the sieve of destruction, and place a bridle in the jaws of the peoples, leading them astray.

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    10He is like a bear lying in wait for me, a lion in hiding.

    11He has turned aside my ways and torn me to pieces; He has made me desolate.

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  • Job 19:6-13
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    6know then that God has wronged me and surrounded me with His net.

    7Behold, I cry out, 'Violence!' but I am not answered; I call for help, but there is no justice.

    8He has blocked my path so I cannot pass; He has shrouded my ways with darkness.

    9He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head.

    10He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone; He uproots my hope like a tree.

    11His anger burns against me, and He counts me as one of His enemies.

    12His troops assemble together; they raise a siege against me and encamp around my dwelling.

    13He has driven my brothers far from me, and my acquaintances have turned against me.

  • Lam 3:2-8
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    2He has driven me away and brought me into darkness, not into light.

    3Surely against me He turns His hand again and again, all day long.

    4He has worn away my flesh and my skin; He has broken my bones.

    5He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

    6He has made me dwell in dark places, like those long dead.

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    8Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer.

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    10But look, He finds faults against me; He considers me His enemy.

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    53They threw me alive into a pit and cast a stone upon me.

  • Ps 142:3
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    3I pour out my complaint before Him; I declare my troubles to Him.

  • Lam 3:15-17
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    15He has filled me with bitterness; He has made me drink wormwood.

    16He has broken my teeth with gravel; He has made me cower in ashes.

    17My soul has been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what happiness is.

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    11Because God has loosened my cord and afflicted me, they throw off all restraint in my presence.

    12On my right-hand side, the mob rises up; they push away my feet and build up their ways of destruction against me.

    13They tear up my path; they help advance my ruin, even though no one comes to assist them.

  • Lam 1:13
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    11God has handed me over to the unjust and thrown me into the hands of the wicked.

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    5Guard me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; protect me from men of violence who plot to overthrow my steps.

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    6Be exalted, O God, above the heavens; let Your glory be over all the earth.

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    3For the enemy has pursued me, crushing my life to the ground and making me dwell in darkness, like those long dead.

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    5Hold steady my steps in your paths so that my feet do not slip.

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    11My feet have closely followed his steps; I have kept to his way and not turned aside.

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    19He has cast me into the mud, and I am reduced to dust and ashes.

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    23To a man whose path is hidden, and whom God has hedged in?

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    4Does He not see my ways and count all my steps?

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    16My strength is dried up like a broken piece of pottery, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth; you lay me in the dust of death.

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    17For He crushes me with a tempest and multiplies my wounds without cause.

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    15Their paths are crooked, and their ways are devious.