Lamentations 3:9
He has blocked every road I take with a wall of hewn stones; he has made every path impassable.
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Referenced Verses
- Isa 63:17 : 17 Why, LORD, do you make us stray from your ways, and make our minds stubborn so that we do not obey you? Return for the sake of your servants, the tribes of your inheritance!
- Lam 3:11 : 11 He has obstructed my paths and torn me to pieces; he has made me desolate.
- Hos 2:6 : 6 The Lord’s Discipline Will Bring Israel Back Therefore, I will soon fence her in with thorns; I will wall her in so that she cannot find her way.
- Isa 30:28 : 28 His battle cry overwhelms like a flooding river that reaches one’s neck. He shakes the nations in a sieve that isolates the chaff; he puts a bit into the mouth of the nations and leads them to destruction.
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- Lam 3:10-123 verses87%
10 ד(Dalet) To me he is like a bear lying in ambush, like a hidden lion stalking its prey.
11 He has obstructed my paths and torn me to pieces; he has made me desolate.
12 He drew his bow and made me the target for his arrow.
- Job 19:6-138 verses86%
6 know then that God has wronged me and encircled me with his net.
7 Job’s Abandonment and Affliction“If I cry out,‘Violence!’ I receive no answer; I cry for help, but there is no justice.
8 He has blocked my way so I cannot pass, and has set darkness over my paths.
9 He has stripped me of my honor and has taken the crown off my head.
10 He tears me down on every side until I perish; he uproots my hope like an uprooted tree.
11 Thus his anger burns against me, and he considers me among his enemies.
12 His troops advance together; they throw up a siege ramp against me, and they camp around my tent.
13 Job’s Forsaken State“He has put my relatives far from me; my acquaintances only turn away from me.
- Lam 3:2-87 verses84%
2 He drove me into captivity and made me walk in darkness and not light.
3 He repeatedly attacks me, he turns his hand against me all day long.
4 ב(Bet) He has made my mortal skin waste away; he has broken my bones.
5 He has besieged and surrounded me with bitter hardship.
6 He has made me reside in deepest darkness like those who died long ago.
7 ג(Gimel) He has walled me in so that I cannot get out; he has weighted me down with heavy prison chains.
8 Also, when I cry out desperately for help, he has shut out my prayer.
- Job 33:10-112 verses80%
10 Yet God finds occasions with me; he regards me as his enemy!
11 He puts my feet in shackles; he watches closely all my paths.’
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53 They shut me up in a pit and threw stones at me.
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3 Even when my strength leaves me, you watch my footsteps. In the path where I walk they have hidden a trap for me.
- Lam 3:15-173 verses77%
15 He has given me my fill of bitter herbs and made me drunk with bitterness.
16 ו(Vav) He ground my teeth in gravel; he trampled me in the dust.
17 I am deprived of peace; I have forgotten what happiness is.
- Job 30:11-133 verses77%
11 Because God has untied my tent cord and afflicted me, people throw off all restraint in my presence.
12 On my right the young rabble rise up; they drive me from place to place, and build up siege ramps against me.
13 They destroy my path; they succeed in destroying me without anyone assisting them.
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13 מ(Mem) He sent down fire into my bones, and it overcame them. He spread out a trapper’s net for my feet; he made me turn back. He has made me desolate; I am faint all day long.
- Job 16:11-144 verses75%
11 God abandons me to evil men, and throws me into the hands of wicked men.
12 I was in peace, and he has shattered me. He has seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has made me his target;
13 his archers surround me. Without pity he pierces my kidneys and pours out my gall on the ground.
14 He breaks through against me, time and time again; he rushes against me like a warrior.
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5 Proud men hide a snare for me; evil men spread a net by the path; they set traps for me.(Selah)
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6 They have prepared a net to trap me; I am discouraged. They have dug a pit for me. They will fall into it!(Selah)
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10 when I prescribed its limits, and set in place its bolts and doors,
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7 His vigorous steps are restricted, and his own counsel throws him down.
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3 Certainly my enemies chase me. They smash me into the ground. They force me to live in dark regions, like those who have been dead for ages.
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27 And you put my feet in the stocks and you watch all my movements; you put marks on the soles of my feet.
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5 I carefully obey your commands; I do not deviate from them.
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11 My feet have followed his steps closely; I have kept to his way and have not turned aside.
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19 He has flung me into the mud, and I have come to resemble dust and ashes.
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9 His anger has torn me and persecuted me; he has gnashed at me with his teeth; my adversary locks his eyes on me.
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23 Why is light given to a man whose way 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 Yes, wild dogs surround me– a gang of evil men crowd around me; like a lion they pin my hands and feet.
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2 But as for me, my feet almost slipped; my feet almost slid out from under me.
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3 The plowers plowed my back; they made their furrows long.
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17 he who crushes me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds for no reason.
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15 whose paths are morally crooked, and who are devious in their ways;