“Third, a remedy for escape is cut off due to a hindrance in counselling. "He has blocked my ways with hewn stones, he has made my paths crooked." Namely, he has blocked counsels for escaping: "with hewn stones": like to heavy impediments. The prophet Hosea thus claims: "Therefore I will hedge up her way with thorns; a…”
Thomas Aquinas, 13th c. — Commentary on Lamentations
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9He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
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7He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
8Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
— Lamentations 3:9 —
10He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.
11He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.