KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Lamentations 3:8–9
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Lamentations 3:8
8Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
8Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
Lamentations 3:9
9He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
9Hee hath inclosed my wayes with hewen stone: he hath made my pathes crooked.
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DEFINED WORDS
Lamentations 3:8
A loud cry or sudden outburst of voices; as a verb, to utter such a cry.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Outside, away from within, forth, absent, or no longer in a stated condition.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Lamentations 3:9
Surrounded; encompassed; confined on all sides; covered and sealed; fenced.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Cut, carved, or shaped with an axe, chisel, or other tool.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A piece or mass of rock; also to strike or kill with stones, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Formed, caused, prepared, appointed, or brought into a stated condition.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Ways, tracks, or courses followed in travel or conduct.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Bent, curved, winding, or not straight.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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From verse 8
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Open the full verse study20I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.
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Open the full verse study2O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
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Open the full verse study7Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
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Open the full verse study44Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.
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Open the full verse study46And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
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Open the full verse study2O Lord, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!
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Open the full verse study4O Lord God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?
From verse 9
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Open the full verse study17¶ O Lord, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants’ sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.
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Open the full verse study6¶ Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.
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Open the full verse study28And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.
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Open the full verse study11He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
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