Lamentations 3:9

He has blocked ¹  every road I take ²  with a wall of hewn stones; he has made every path impassable. ³ 

Isa 30:28; Isa 63:17; La 3:11

¹ 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.

² tn Heb “my roads.”

³ tn Heb “he had made my paths crooked.” The implication is that the paths by which one might escape cannot be traversed.