He walled up my ways with hewn stone; my paths are crooked.

or to a man whose way is concealed, whom God has covered?

He has fenced up my way, so that I cannot pass; and He has set darkness in my paths.

You have removed my acquaintances far from me; You have made me an abomination to them; I am shut up, and I cannot go out;

And they took Jeremiah and threw him into the pit of Malchijah the son of Hammelech, which was in the court of the guard. And they let Jeremiah down with ropes. And there was no water in the pit, only mud. So Jeremiah sank into the mud.

Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and I will close off her wall, so that she shall not find her paths.

The yoke of my transgressions is bound by His hand, woven together, and thrust upon my neck. He has made my strength to falter; the Lord has delivered me into their hands. I am not able to rise up.

We are pursued on our necks; we labor and have no rest.

And He has confirmed His Words which He spoke against us, and against our judges who judged us, by bringing on us a great evil. For under the whole heavens it has never been done as has been done to Jerusalem.