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He has shut me into a place of high, smooth walls;[a] he has filled my path with detours.

10 He lurks like a bear, like a lion, waiting to attack me. 11 He has dragged me into the underbrush and torn me with his claws, leaving me bleeding and desolate.

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  1. Lamentations 3:9 He has shut me into a place of high, smooth walls, literally, “He has walled up my ways with hewn stone.”

He has barred(A) my way with blocks of stone;
    he has made my paths crooked.(B)

10 Like a bear lying in wait,
    like a lion(C) in hiding,(D)
11 he dragged me from the path and mangled(E) me
    and left me without help.

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