Bible in Basic English
"He has put up a wall of cut stones about my ways, he has made my roads twisted."
— Lamentations 3:9, Bible in Basic English
“He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.”
He has kept me in dark places, like those who have been long dead.
He has put a wall round me, so that I am not able to go out; he has made great the weight of my chain.
Even when I send up a cry for help, he keeps my prayer shut out.
He has put up a wall of cut stones about my ways, he has made my roads twisted.
He is like a bear waiting for me, like a lion in secret places.
By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste.
With his bow bent, he has made me the mark for his arrows.