he has blocked my ways with blocks of stones; he has made my paths crooked.
O Lord, why do you make us wander from your ways and harden our heart, so that we fear you not? Return for the sake of your servants, the tribes of your heritage.
Therefore I will hedge up her way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, so that she cannot find her paths.
he turned aside my steps and tore me to pieces; he has made me desolate;
his breath is like an overflowing stream that reaches up to the neck; to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction, and to place on the jaws of the peoples a bridle that leads astray.
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