Lamentations 3:5

The Scriptures 2009

He has piled up against me, And surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

Cross References

Job 19:8

He has fenced up my way, and I pass not over. And He has placed darkness in my paths.

Psalm 69:21

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

Jeremiah 23:15

“Therefore thus said יהוה of hosts concerning the prophets, ‘See, I am making them eat wormwood, and shall make them drink poisoned water. For defilement has gone out into all the land from the prophets of Yerushalayim.’ ”

Jeremiah 8:14

Why are we sitting still? Gather yourselves, and let us go into the walled cities, and let us be silent there. For יהוה our Elohim has let us perish and given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against יהוה.

Jeremiah 9:15

Therefore thus said יהוה of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, “See, I am making this people eat wormwood, and I shall make them drink poisoned water.

Lamentations 3:19

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

Luke 21:20

“And when you see Yerushalayim surrounded by armies, then know that its laying waste is near.