Lamentations 3:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁵ he has besieged and enveloped me with bitterness and tribulation;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ He hath builded against me, And compassed me with gall and travail.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ He has built up [siege mounds] against me and surrounded me with bitterness, tribulation, and anguish.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.

Common English Bible

⁵ He besieged me, surrounding me with bitterness and weariness.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ BETH. He has built all around me, and he has encircled me with gall and hardship.

Lamentations 3:5 Cross References

Lamentations 3:19

The thought of my affliction and my homelessness is wormwood and gall!

Jeremiah 23:15

Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts concerning the prophets: I am going to make them eat wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink, for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has spread throughout the land.

Job 19:8

He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness upon my paths.

Jeremiah 9:15

Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: I am feeding this people with wormwood and giving them poisonous water to drink.

Jeremiah 8:14

Why do we sit still? Gather together; let us go into the fortified cities and perish there, for the Lord our God has doomed us to perish and has given us poisoned water to drink because we have sinned against the Lord.

Psalm 69:21

They gave me poison for food, and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

Luke 21:20

“When you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation has come near.