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Lamentations 3:9
Lamentations 3:9 is verse 9 of Lamentations chapter 3, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked.
King James Version
He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
World English Bible
He has walled up my ways with cut stone. He has made my paths crooked.
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Lamentations 3:7–11 · Berean Standard Bible
7 He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed me down with chains.
8 Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer.
9 He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked.
10 He is a bear lying in wait, a lion hiding in ambush.
11 He forced me off my path and tore me to pieces; He left me without help.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Lamentations 3:11He forced me off my path and tore me to pieces; He left me without help.
Isaiah 30:28His breath is like a rushing torrent that rises to the neck. He comes to sift the nations in a sieve of destruction; He bridles the jaws of the peoples to lead them astray.
Isaiah 63:17Why, O LORD, do You make us stray from Your ways and harden our hearts from fearing You? Return, for the sake of Your servants, the tribes of Your heritage.