LAM 3:9 Parallel Verse View

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Key: khaki:verbs.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

BrLXX ΔΑΛΕΘ. Ἀνῳκοδόμησεν ὁδούς μου, ἐνέφραξε τρίβους μου,
(DALETh. Anōikodomaʸsen hodous mou, enefraxe tribous mou, )

UST It is as though he has blocked my path with a high stone wall
⇔ and has caused me to wander everywhere to try to get out.

OEB He hath blocked up my path with hewn stone,
⇔ And my way He hath tangled.

WEBBE He has walled up my ways with cut stone.
⇔ He has made my paths crooked.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET He has blocked every road I take with a wall of hewn stones;
⇔ he has made every path impassable.

LSV He has hedged my ways with hewn work,
My paths He has made crooked.

FBV He has put stone blocks in my way and sends me down crooked paths.

T4T It is as though he has blocked my path with a high stone wall
⇔ and has caused my path to become crooked.

LEB • he has made my paths crooked.

BBE He has put up a wall of cut stones about my ways, he has made my roads twisted.

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JPS He hath enclosed 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.

DRA Ghimel. He hath shut up my ways with square stones, he hath turned my paths upside down.

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

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

RV He hath fenced up my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.

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

KJB-1769 He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
(He hath/has inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath/has made my paths crooked. )

KJB-1611 Hee hath inclosed my wayes with hewen stone: he hath made my pathes crooked.
(He hath/has inclosed my ways with hewen stone: he hath/has made my paths crooked.)

Bshps He hath stopped vp my wayes with foure squared stones, and made my pathes crooked.
(He hath/has stopped up my ways with four squared stones, and made my paths crooked.)

Gnva He hath stopped vp my wayes with hewen stone, and turned away my paths.
(He hath/has stopped up my ways with hewen stone, and turned away my paths. )

Cvdl He hath stopped vp my wayes with foure squared stones, & made my pathes croked.
(He hath/has stopped up my ways with four squared stones, and made my paths croked.)

Wyc Gymel. He closide togidere my weies with square stoonus; he distriede my pathis.
(Gymel. He closide together my ways with square stones; he destroyed my pathis.)

Luth Er hat meinen Weg vermauert mit Werkstücken und meinen Steig umgekehret.
(He has my path vermauert with Werkstücken and my Steig umswept.)

ClVg Ghimel Conclusit vias meas lapidibus quadris; semitas meas subvertit.
(Ghimel Conclusit vias meas lapidibus quadris; path meas subvertit. )

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

(Occurrence 0) He blocked my path

(Some words not found in UHB: blocked ways,my in/on/at/with,blocks_of_stone paths,my made_~_crooked )

The author speaks of God causing him to continue to suffer as if God was preventing him from escaping the suffering by blocking his path. Alternate translation: “It is as though he blocked my path”

(Occurrence 0) a wall of hewn stone

(Some words not found in UHB: blocked ways,my in/on/at/with,blocks_of_stone paths,my made_~_crooked )

“a wall of cut stones.” People would cut stones into regular shapes that could fit together well in order to build a strong wall.

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

(Occurrence 0) he made my paths crooked

(Some words not found in UHB: blocked ways,my in/on/at/with,blocks_of_stone paths,my made_~_crooked )

Crooked paths do not lead people to where they want to go. Here they represent unsuccessful ways of escaping suffering. Alternate translation: “it is as though he has made my paths crooked” or “I have tried to make the suffering stop, but God has prevented me, like one who prevents another from escaping by making his paths crooked”

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