Lamentations 3:5

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he has besieged and enveloped me with bitterness and tribulation;

Cross References

Job 19:8

He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness upon my paths.

Psalm 69:21

They gave me poison for food, and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

Jeremiah 23:15

Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts concerning the prophets: “I am going to make them eat wormwood, and give them poisoned water to drink; for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has spread throughout the land.”

Jeremiah 8:14

Why do we sit still? Gather together, let us go into the fortified cities and perish there; for the Lord our God has doomed us to perish, and has given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:15

Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: I am feeding this people with wormwood, and giving them poisonous water to drink.

Lamentations 3:19

The thought of my affliction and my homelessness is wormwood and gall!

Luke 21:20

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