Lamentations 3:5

New International Version

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

Cross References

Job 19:8

He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; he has shrouded my paths in darkness.

Psalm 69:21

They put gall in my food and gave me vinegar for my thirst.

Jeremiah 23:15

Therefore this is what the Lord Almighty says concerning the prophets: “I will make them eat bitter food and drink poisoned water, because from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has spread throughout the land.”

Jeremiah 8:14

Why are we sitting here? Gather together! Let us flee to the fortified cities and perish there! For the Lord our God has doomed us to perish and given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against him.

Jeremiah 9:15

Therefore this is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: “See, I will make this people eat bitter food and drink poisoned water.

Lamentations 3:19

I remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the gall.

Luke 21:20

“When you see Jerusalem being surrounded by armies, you will know that its desolation is near.