Lamentations 3:5

New English Translation

He has besieged and surrounded me with bitter hardship.

Cross References

Job 19:8

He has blocked my way so I cannot pass, and has set darkness over my paths.

Psalm 69:21

They put bitter poison into my food, and to quench my thirst they give me vinegar to drink.

Jeremiah 23:15

So then I, the Lord who rules over all, have something to say concerning the prophets of Jerusalem: ‘I will make these prophets eat the bitter food of suffering and drink the poison water of judgment. For the prophets of Jerusalem are the reason that ungodliness has spread throughout the land.’”

Jeremiah 8:14

The people say, “Why are we just sitting here? Let us gather together inside the fortified cities. Let us at least die there fighting, since the Lord our God has condemned us to die. He has condemned us to drink the poison waters of judgment because we have sinned against him.

Jeremiah 9:15

So then, listen to what I, the Lord God of Israel who rules over all, say. ‘I will make these people eat the bitter food of suffering and drink the poison water of judgment.

Lamentations 3:19

Remember my impoverished and homeless condition, which is a bitter poison.

Luke 21:20

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