Lamentations 3:9 — Compare Translations
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English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young
He hath hedged my ways with hewn work, My paths He hath made crooked.
English ASV
He hath walled up my ways with hewn stone; he hath made my paths crooked.
English Amplified
He has enclosed my ways with hewn stone; He has made my paths crooked.
English Amplified Classic Bible 1987
He has enclosed my ways with hewn stone; He has made my paths crooked.
English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025
He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked.
English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible
He has walled in my ways with blocks of stone; he has made my paths crooked.
English Darby 1890 : Public Domain
He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
English EASY 2024
He has used big rocks to build a wall across every road where I go. I cannot go anywhere.
English ERV 2006 - Only For Website
He has blocked up my path with stones. He has made my path crooked.
English ESV 2016 == The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles
he has blocked my ways with blocks of stones; he has made my paths crooked.
English GNT (Good News Translation)
I stagger as I walk; stone walls block me wherever I turn.
English God's Word - GW 1995
He has blocked my way with cut stones and made my paths crooked.
English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website
He has walled in my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked.
English KJV 1611
He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
English LSB
He has blocked my ways with cut stone; He has made my paths crooked.
English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)
He has blocked my ways with hewn stone; He has made my paths crooked.
English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)
He has blocked my ways with hewn stone; He has made my paths crooked.
English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website
He has blocked my ways with fitted stones, and turned my paths aside.
English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)
He has blocked every road I take with a wall of hewn stones; he has made every path impassable. ד ( Dalet )
English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website
He has put up a stone wall to block my way. He has made my paths crooked.
English NIV
He has barred my way with blocks of stone; he has made my paths crooked.
English NKJ 1982
He has blocked my ways with hewn stone; He has made my paths crooked.
English NLT
He has blocked my path with a high stone wall. He has twisted the road before me with many detours.
English NRSV 1989 - Only for website
he has blocked my ways with hewn stones, he has made my paths crooked.
English Passion Translation Bible 2020
He has made my paths a maze and obstructed my ways.
English RSV (Revised Standard Version)
he has blocked my ways with hewn stones, he has made my paths crooked.
English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)
He has shut me into a place of high, smooth walls; he has filled my path with detours.
English Tyndale 1537
He hath stopped up my ways with four square stones, and made my paths crooked.