Lamentations 3:9

KJV1611 – Modern English

He has enclosed my ways with hewn stone; He has made my paths crooked.

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 63:17 : 17 O LORD, why have you made us to stray from your ways, and hardened our heart from your fear? Return for your servants' sake, the tribes of 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 Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and make a wall, so she shall not find her paths.
  • Isa 30:28 : 28 And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the middle of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.

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  • Lam 3:10-12
    3 verses
    87%

    10He was to me like a bear lying in wait, and like a lion in hiding.

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

    12He has bent His bow and set me as a target for the arrow.

  • Job 19:6-13
    8 verses
    86%

    6Know now that God has overthrown me and has surrounded me with His net.

    7Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard; I cry aloud, but there is no justice.

    8He has fenced up my way so that I cannot pass, and He has set darkness in my paths.

    9He has stripped me of my glory and taken the crown from my head.

    10He has destroyed me on every side, and I am gone; and my hope He has removed like a tree.

    11He has also kindled His wrath against me and counts me as one of His enemies.

    12His troops come together and raise up their way against me, and encamp around my tent.

    13He has put my brothers far from me, and my acquaintances are truly estranged from me.

  • Lam 3:2-8
    7 verses
    84%

    2He has led me and brought me into darkness, but not into light.

    3Surely against me He is turned; He turns His hand against me all day long.

    4My flesh and my skin He has made old; He has broken my bones.

    5He has built against me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

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

    7He has hedged me in so I cannot get out; He has made my chain heavy.

    8Even when I cry and shout, He shuts out my prayer.

  • Job 33:10-11
    2 verses
    80%

    10Behold, He finds occasions against me, He counts me as His enemy;

    11He puts my feet in the stocks, He marks all my paths.

  • Lam 3:53
    78%

    53They cut off my life in the pit and threw a stone upon me.

  • Ps 142:3
    78%

    3When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then You knew my path. In the way where I walked, they secretly laid a snare for me.

  • Lam 3:15-17
    3 verses
    77%

    15He has filled me with bitterness, He has made me drunk with wormwood.

    16He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones; He has covered me with ashes.

    17You have moved my soul far from peace; I forgot prosperity.

  • Job 30:11-13
    3 verses
    77%

    11Because He has loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.

    12Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.

    13They mar my path, they advance my calamity, they have no helper.

  • Lam 1:13
    76%

    13From above he has sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them: he has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back: he has made me desolate and faint all the day.

  • Job 16:11-14
    4 verses
    75%

    11God has delivered me to the ungodly and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.

    12I was at ease, but he has broken me apart; he has also seized me by my neck and shaken me to pieces and set me up as his target.

    13His archers surround me, he cleaves my entrails asunder and does not spare; he pours out my gall upon the ground.

    14He breaks me with breach upon breach; he runs upon me like a giant.

  • Ps 140:5
    75%

    5The proud have hidden a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set traps for me. Selah.

  • Ps 57:6
    75%

    6They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down; they have dug a pit before me; into the midst of it they have fallen themselves. Selah.

  • Job 38:10
    74%

    10And fixed My limit for it, and set bars and doors,

  • Job 18:7
    74%

    7The steps of his strength shall be shortened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.

  • Ps 143:3
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    3For the enemy has persecuted my soul; he has crushed my life to the ground; he has made me dwell in darkness, like those long dead.

  • Job 13:27
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    27You put my feet also in the stocks, and watch closely all my paths; you set a mark upon the soles of my feet.

  • Ps 17:5
    74%

    5Hold up my steps in your paths, that my footsteps do not slip.

  • Job 23:11
    74%

    11My foot has held fast to his steps; his way have I kept, and not turned aside.

  • Job 30:19
    74%

    19He has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.

  • Job 16:9
    74%

    9He tears me in his wrath, who hates me; he gnashes upon me with his teeth; my enemy sharpens his eyes upon me.

  • Job 3:23
    74%

    23Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, and whom God has hedged in?

  • Job 31:4
    73%

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

  • Ps 22:16
    73%

    16For dogs have surrounded me; the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me; they pierced my hands and my feet.

  • Ps 73:2
    73%

    2But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had nearly slipped.

  • Ps 129:3
    73%

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

  • Job 9:17
    73%

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

  • Prov 2:15
    73%

    15Whose ways are crooked, and who are perverse in their paths: