Lamentations 3:5

God's Word

He has attacked me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

Cross References

Job 19:8

“God has blocked my path so that I can’t go on. He has made my paths dark.

Psalm 69:21

They poisoned my food, and when I was thirsty, they gave me vinegar to drink.

Jeremiah 23:15

This is what the Lord of Armies says about the prophets: I will give them wormwood to eat and poison to drink. The prophets of Jerusalem have spread godlessness throughout the land.

Jeremiah 8:14

Why are we just sitting here? Let’s get up! Let’s go into the fortified cities and die there. The Lord our God has condemned us to die. He has given us poison to drink because we have sinned against the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:15

This is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: I am going to feed these people bitterness and give them poison to drink.

Lamentations 3:19

Remember my suffering and my ⌞aimless⌟ wandering, the wormwood and poison.

Luke 21:20

“When you see armies camped around Jerusalem, realize that the time is near for it to be destroyed.