Lamentations 3:5
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.”
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BSBPD
“He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“He hath built up against me, And setteth round poverty and weariness.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Lamentations 3:5 — 7 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 19:8He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; He has veiled my paths with darkness.
- Psalms 69:21They poisoned my food with gall and gave me vinegar to quench my thirst.
- Jeremiah 8:14Why are we just sitting here? Gather together, let us flee to the fortified cities and perish there, for the LORD our God has doomed us. He has given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
- Jeremiah 9:15Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I will feed this people wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.
- Jeremiah 23:15Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says concerning the prophets: “I will feed them wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink, for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has spread throughout the land.”
- Lamentations 3:7He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed me down with chains.
- Lamentations 3:19Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and the gall.
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