Rashi, on Lam 3:9

“Ghimel. He hath shut up my ways with square stones, he hath turned my paths upside down.”

“He has made my paths crooked If I wish to go out, I do not go out on roads paved in a straight way, because of the enemies, but I go out on a crooked road.”

Hebrew and Aramaic words are the commentator’s citations of the sacred text; the English translation that follows each is the translator’s.

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.