Third, a remedy for escape is cut off due to a hindrance in counselling. "He has blocked my ways with hewn stones, he has made my paths crooked." Namely, he has blocked counsels for escaping: "with hewn stones": like to heavy impediments. The prophet Hosea thus claims: "Therefore I will hedge up her way with thorns; and I will build a wall against her so that she cannot find her paths." (Hosea 2:6).
[AD 1274] Thomas Aquinas on Lamentations 3:9