Lamentations 3:5

New Living Translation

He has besieged and surrounded me with anguish and distress.

Cross References

Job 19:8

God has blocked my way so I cannot move. He has plunged my path into darkness.

Psalm 69:21

But instead, they give me poison for food; they offer me sour wine for my thirst.

Jeremiah 23:15

Therefore, this is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says concerning the prophets: “I will feed them with bitterness and give them poison to drink. For it is because of Jerusalem’s prophets that wickedness has filled this land.”

Jeremiah 8:14

“Then the people will say, ‘Why should we wait here to die? Come, let’s go to the fortified towns and die there. For the Lord our God has decreed our destruction and has given us a cup of poison to drink because we sinned against the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:15

So now, this is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, says: Look! I will feed them with bitterness and give them poison to drink.

Lamentations 3:19

The thought of my suffering and homelessness is bitter beyond words.

Luke 21:20

“And when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then you will know that the time of its destruction has arrived.