Inclosed - Or, hedged (Lamentations 3:7).

Hath made crooked - Or, “has” turned aside. A solid wall being built acr…

He hath inclosed. —Yet another figure of resourceless misery follows. A massive wall of stone runs across the mourner’s w…

He hath made my paths crooked. He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places. He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled…

Other metaphors are used. Some think that the Prophet refers to the siege of Jerusalem, but such a view is not suitable. The metaphors correspond w…

He has enclosed my ways with hewn stone
Not with a hedge of thorns, or mud walls, but with a fence of stones; and th…

The prophet relates the more gloomy and discouraging part of his experience, and how he found support and relief. In the time of his trial the Lord…

Here he excludes any means of escape.