Lamentations 3:9
He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
Hee hath inclosed my wayes with hewen stone: he hath made my pathes crooked.
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- Isaiah 63:17Rank 1 from verse 9
17¶ 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.
17¶ O LORD, why hast thou made vs to erre from thy wayes? and hardened our heart from thy feare? Returne for thy seruants sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.
- Isaiah 30:28Rank 3 from verse 9
28And 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.
28And his breath as an ouerflowing streame, shall reach to the midst of the necke, to sift the nations with the sieue of vanitie: and there shalbe a bridle in the iawes of the people causing them to erre.
- Lamentations 3:11Rank 4 from verse 9
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Lamentations 3:9
Enclosed, surrounded, shut in, bounded, or set within a surrounding frame or boundary.
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Sense 1: Cut, chopped, shaped, carved, or taken out by a cutting tool. Sense 2: Cut down or separated from a source, literally or by figure.
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Sense 1: A piece or mass of rock. Sense 2: To strike or kill with stones.
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Formed, caused, prepared, appointed, or brought into a stated condition.
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1. Figuratively, ways or courses of conduct, action, or direction. 2. Tracks, roads, routes, or ways of passage or travel.
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1. Bent, winding, or not straight. 2. Figuratively, morally perverse or turned aside from what is right.
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8Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
8Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
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.
Selected passage10He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.
10He was vnto me as a Beare lying in waite, and as a Lion in secret places.