Lam 3:9 | TNotes | STEP | 3:9 blocked my way ... made my road crooked: Sin causes confusion and cuts a person or a community off from a happy future. Innocent people know the future as a straight path that is easy to follow (Prov 21:8 ). Isaiah imagined God’s activities as a procession on a straight road that his worshipers would prepare (Isa 40:3 ).

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‏ Lamentations 3:9

3:9 ^a blocked my way ... made my road crooked: Sin causes confusion and cuts a person or a community off from a happy future. Innocent people know the future as a straight path that is easy to follow (Prov 21:8 ^b). Isaiah imagined God’s activities as a procession on a straight road that his worshipers would prepare (Isa 40:3 ^c).