Lamentations 3:9
lHe hath *inclosed my ways with *hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
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Lamentations 3:5 He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
Lamentations 3:7 He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
Lamentations 3:11 He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
Psalms 88:7 Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.
Leviticus 26:27 And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me;
Leviticus 26:28 Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.
*:
inclosed-enclosed, surrounded.
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hewn-shaped by cutting or chopping.
in Scripture ordinarily signifies men’s courses, and methods of counsels, and actions; if the term be taken in that sense here, it signifieth God’s defeating all their methods and counsels taken for their own security, in the pursuit of which they met not with ordinary, but with insuperable difficulties, like walls of hewn stone. Nay, God had not only defeated their counsels, but had made them prove more fatal and pernicious to themselves, which seemeth to be intended, by making their ways crooked, which should have led right on to the end intended.