Bible verse
He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked.
Lamentations 3:9 · BSB
The verses around it, from Lamentations 3.
5 He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
6 He has made me dwell in darkness like those dead for ages.
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.
12 He bent His bow and set me as the target for His arrow.
13 He pierced my kidneys with His arrows.
KJV
He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
ASV
He hath walled up my ways with hewn stone; he hath made my paths crooked.
ERV
He hath fenced up my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
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