The Meaning of Lamentations 3:9 Explained

Lamentations 3:9

KJV: He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.

YLT: He hath hedged my ways with hewn work, My paths He hath made crooked.

Darby: 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.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

He hath inclosed  my ways  with hewn stone,  he hath made my paths  crooked. 

What does Lamentations 3:9 Mean?

Chapter Summary: Lamentations 3

1  The prophet bewails his own calamities
22  By the mercies of God, he nourishes his hope
37  He acknowledges God's justice
55  He prays for deliverance
64  And vengeance on his enemies

What do the individual words in Lamentations 3:9 mean?

He has blocked my ways with hewn stone my paths He has made crooked -
גָּדַ֤ר דְּרָכַי֙ בְּגָזִ֔ית נְתִיבֹתַ֖י עִוָּֽה ס

גָּדַ֤ר  He  has  blocked 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Perfect, third person masculine singular
Root: גָּדַר  
Sense: to wall up, wall off, close off, build a wall.
דְּרָכַי֙  my  ways 
Parse: Noun, common plural construct, first person common singular
Root: דֶּרֶךְ  
Sense: way, road, distance, journey, manner.
בְּגָזִ֔ית  with  hewn  stone 
Parse: Preposition-b, Noun, feminine singular
Root: גָּזִית  
Sense: a cutting, hewing.
נְתִיבֹתַ֖י  my  paths 
Parse: Noun, feminine plural construct, first person common singular
Root: נָתִיב 
Sense: trodden with the feet, path, pathway.
עִוָּֽה  He  has  made  crooked 
Parse: Verb, Piel, Perfect, third person masculine singular
Root: עָוָה 
Sense: to bend, twist, distort.
ס  - 
Parse: Punctuation

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