Matthew Poole and continuators on Lamentations 3:9

9 He hath inclosed my wayes with hewen stones , he hath made my pathes crooked .

Wayes in Scripture ordinarily signifies mens Courses, and methods of Counsels, and actions if the term be taken in that sense here, it signifieth Gods defeating all their methods and counsels taken for their own security in the pursuit of which they met not with ordinary, but with insuperable difficulties like Walls of hewen stone.

Nay God had not onely defeated their Counsels, but had made them prove fatal and pernicious to themselves, which seemeth to be intended, by making their wayes crooked, which should have led right on to the end intended.