Lamentations 3:9 meaning and explanation
He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked.
Lamentations 3:9, Berean Standard Bible
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In this chapter the speaker, a man representing Jerusalem's suffering after the city's fall, describes his affliction as coming from God's own hand. The imagery is of a traveler blocked at every turn: cut stones wall off his road, and the paths he does take are made crooked, so no route leads anywhere.
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