Lamentations 3:9
He has walled up my ways with hewn stone; he has made my paths crooked.
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Referenced Verses
- Isa 63:17 : 17 O Yahweh, why do you make us to err from your ways, and harden 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 pulled me in pieces; he has made me desolate.
- Hos 2:6 : 6 Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, And I will build a wall against her, That she can't find her way.
- Isa 30:28 : 28 and his breath is as an overflowing stream, that reaches even to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction: and a bridle that causes to err [shall be] in the jaws of the peoples.
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- Lam 3:10-123 verses87%
10 He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.
11 He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he has made me desolate.
12 He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
- Job 19:6-138 verses86%
6 Know now that God has subverted me, And has surrounded me with his net.
7 "Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry for help, but there is no justice.
8 He has walled up my way so that I can't pass, And has set darkness in my paths.
9 He has stripped me of my glory, And taken the crown from my head.
10 He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. My hope he has plucked up like a tree.
11 He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me among his adversaries.
12 His troops come on together, Build a siege ramp against me, And encamp around my tent.
13 "He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
- Lam 3:2-87 verses84%
2 He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.
3 Surely against me he turns his hand again and again all the day.
4 My flesh and my skin has he made old; he has broken my bones.
5 He has built against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
6 He has made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.
7 He has walled me about, that I can't go forth; he has made my chain heavy.
8 Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.
- Job 33:10-112 verses80%
10 Behold, he finds occasions against me, He counts me for his enemy:
11 He puts my feet in the stocks, He marks all my paths.'
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53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone on me.
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3 When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, You knew my path. In the way in which I walk, They have hidden a snare for me.
- Lam 3:15-173 verses77%
15 He has filled me with bitterness, he has sated me with wormwood.
16 He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he has covered me with ashes.
17 You have removed my soul far off from peace; I forgot prosperity.
- Job 30:11-133 verses77%
11 For he has untied his cord, and afflicted me; And they have thrown off restraint before me.
12 On my right hand rise the rabble. They thrust aside my feet, They cast up against me their ways of destruction.
13 They mar my path, They set forward my calamity, Without anyone's help.
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13 From on high has he 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 16:11-144 verses75%
11 God delivers me to the ungodly, And casts me into the hands of the wicked.
12 I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his target.
13 His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. He pours out my gall on the ground.
14 He breaks me with breach on breach. He runs on me like a giant.
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5 The proud have hidden a snare for me, They have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me. Selah.
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6 They have prepared a net for my steps. My soul is bowed down. They dig a pit before me. They fall into the midst of it themselves. Selah.
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10 Marked out for it my bound, Set bars and doors,
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7 The steps of his strength shall be shortened, His own counsel shall cast him down.
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3 For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.
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27 You also put my feet in the stocks, And mark all my paths. You set a bound to the soles of my feet:
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5 My steps have held fast to your paths, My feet have not slipped.
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11 My foot has held fast to his steps. His way have I kept, and not turned aside.
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19 He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes.
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9 He has torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me; He has gnashed on me with his teeth: My adversary sharpens his eyes on me.
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23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, Whom God has hedged in?
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4 Doesn't he see my ways, And number all my steps?
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16 For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evil-doers have enclosed me. They pierced my hands and my feet.
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2 But as for me, my feet were almost gone. My steps had nearly slipped.
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3 The plowers plowed on my back. They made their furrows long.
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17 For he breaks me with a tempest, Multiplies my wounds without cause.
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15 Who are crooked in their ways, And wayward in their paths: