Lamentations 3:9

3:9 He has blocked every road I take with a wall of hewn stones;

he has made every path impassable.


tn The verb גָּדַר (garad) has a two-fold range of meanings: (1) “to build up a wall” with stones, and (2) “to block a road” with a wall of stones. The collocated terms דְּרָכַי (dÿrakhay, “my roads”) in 3:9 clearly indicate that the second category of meaning is in view.

tn Heb “my roads.”

tn Heb “he had made my paths crooked.” The implication is that the paths by which one might escape cannot be traversed.