Lamentations 3:9
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked.”
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BSBPD
“He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“He hath walled up my ways with hewn stone; he hath made my paths crooked.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“He hath hedged my ways with hewn work, My paths He hath made crooked.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Lamentations 3:9 — 5 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 19:8He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; He has veiled my paths with darkness.
- 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.
- Lamentations 3:11He forced me off my path and tore me to pieces; He left me without help.
- Hosea 2:6Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her path with thorns; I will enclose her with a wall, so she cannot find her way.
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
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