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

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

    12 He has bent His bow and made me the target for His arrows.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    7 He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed down my chains.

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

  • Job 33:10-11
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    10 But look, He finds faults against me; He considers me His enemy.

    11 He puts my feet in the stocks; He watches all my paths.

  • Lam 3:53
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    53 They threw me alive into a pit and cast a stone upon me.

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

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

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

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

  • Job 30:11-13
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    11 Because God has loosened my cord and afflicted me, they throw off all restraint in my presence.

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

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

  • Lam 1:13
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    13 From on high he sent fire; it burns in my bones. He spread a net for my feet and turned me back. He made me desolate, faint all the day long.

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    11 God has handed me over to the unjust and thrown me into the hands of the wicked.

    12 I was at ease, but he shattered me; he seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has made me his target.

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    14 He breaks me with breach upon breach; he rushes at me like a warrior.

  • Ps 140:5
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    5 Guard me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; protect me from men of violence who plot to overthrow my steps.

  • Ps 57:6
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    6 Be exalted, O God, above the heavens; let Your glory be over all the earth.

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    10 when I set its boundary and placed bars and doors on it,

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    7 His vigorous steps will be restricted, and his own counsel will cast him down.

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    3 For 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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    27 You put my feet in shackles and watch all my ways; You set a limit for the soles of my feet.

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

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

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

  • Job 16:9
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    9 His anger tears at me, and he hates me; he gnashes his teeth at me. My adversary sharpens his eyes against me.

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

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

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    16 My 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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    2 But as for me, my feet almost slipped, my steps nearly stumbled.

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    3 The plowers plowed upon my back; they made their furrows long.

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

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