Catholic Public Domain Version
"GHIMEL. He has enclosed my ways with square stones; he has subverted my paths. "
— Lamentations 3:9, Catholic Public Domain Version
“He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.”
“He hath walled up my ways with hewn stone; he hath made my paths crooked. ”
“He has walled up my ways with cut stone; he has made my paths crooked.”
“He has blocked every road I take with a wall of hewn stones; he has made every path impassable.”
“Ghimel. He hath shut up my ways with square stones, he hath turned my paths upside down.”
“He has put up a wall of cut stones about my ways, he has made my roads twisted.”
“He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.”
BETH. He has gathered me into darkness, like those who are forever dead.
GHIMEL. He has built against me all around, so that I may not depart. He has increased the burden of my confinement.
GHIMEL. Yet even when I cry out and beg, he excludes my prayer.
GHIMEL. He has enclosed my ways with square stones; he has subverted my paths.
DALETH. He has become to me like a bear lying in ambush, like a lion in hiding.
DALETH. He has subverted my paths, and he has broken me. He has placed me in desolation.
DALETH. He has bent his bow, and he has positioned me like a target for his arrows.