O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, {and} hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.

And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and {there shall be} a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing {them} to err.

Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths. {make...: Heb. wall a wall}

He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.

He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.

{Why is light given} to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?

And if {they be} bound in fetters, {and} be holden in cords of affliction;

He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.