Lamentations 3:5 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ Beth. He hath built round about me and he hath compassed me with gall and labour.

Lamentations 3:5 Cross References

Job 19:8

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

Psalm 69:21

They gave me also gall for my meat; And in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

Jeremiah 23:15

Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets: Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land.

Jeremiah 8:14

Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.

Jeremiah 9:15

therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.

Lamentations 3:19

Remember mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

Luke 21:20

But when ye see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that her desolation is at hand.