Lamentations 3:5

New King James Version

He has besieged me And surrounded me with bitterness and woe.

Cross References

Job 19:8

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

Psalm 69:21

They also gave me gall for my food, And for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

Jeremiah 23:15

“Therefore thus says 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 Profaneness has gone out into all the land.’ ”

Jeremiah 8:14

“Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves, And let us enter the fortified cities, And let us be silent there. For the Lord our God has put us to silence And given us water of gall to drink, Because we have sinned against the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:15

therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: “Behold, I will feed them, this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.

Lamentations 3:19

Remember my affliction and roaming, The wormwood and the gall.

Luke 21:20

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