Albert Barnes Commentary Lamentations 3:9

"He hath walled up my ways with hewn stone; he hath made my paths crooked." — Lamentations 3:9 (ASV)

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

Hath made crooked - Or, “has” turned aside. A solid wall being built across the main road, Jeremiah turns aside into byways, but finds them turned aside, so that they lead him back after long wandering to the place from where he started.