Lamentations 3:5

Lamentations 3:5 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
• New International Version (NIV)He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
• English Standard Version (ESV)he has besieged and enveloped me with bitterness and tribulation;
• New King James Version (NKJV)He has besieged me And surrounded me with bitterness and woe.

Context of Lamentations 3:5

3Surely He has turned His hand against me Repeatedly all the day. 4He has caused my flesh and my skin to waste away; He has shattered my bones. He has besieged and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship. 6He has made me live in dark places Like those who have long been dead. 7He walled me in so that I cannot get out; He has weighted down my chain.

Lamentations 3:5 word by word

בָּנָ֥ה עָלַ֛י וַיַּקַּ֖ף רֹ֥אשׁ וּתְלָאָֽה׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• He hath builded againstבָּנָהbânâh · to buildH1129
• me, and compassedנָקַףnâqaph · to surroundH5362
• with gallרֹאשׁrô'sh rôsh · poisonH7219
• and travailתְּלָאָהtelâ'âh · hardshipH8513

Cross-references for Lamentations 3:5

• Lamentations 3:7He walled me in so that I cannot get out; He has weighted down my chain.
• Job 19:8He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass, And He has set darkness upon my paths.
• Lamentations 3:19Remember [O Lord] my affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and the gall (bitterness).
• Psalms 69:21They (self-righteous hypocrites) also gave me gall [poisonous and bitter] for my food, And for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
• Jeremiah 8:14Why are we sitting still [the people wonder]? Assemble yourselves, and let us enter the fortified cities And let us die there, For the Lord our God has decreed our ruin And given us bitter and poisonous water to drink, Because we have sinned against the Lord.
• Jeremiah 9:15therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, “behold, I will feed them, this people, with wormwood and give them bitter and poisonous water to drink.
• Jeremiah 23:15Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts in regard to the prophets, ‘Behold, I am going to feed them [the bitterness of] wormwood And make them drink the poisonous water [of gall], For from the [counterfeit] prophets of Jerusalem Profaneness and ungodliness have spread into all the land.’ ”

Commentaries on Lamentations 3:5

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5He hath builded against me - Perhaps there is a reference here to the mounds and ramparts raised by the Chaldeans in order to take the city.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5He hath builded … - The metaphor is taken from the operations in a siege. Gall and travail - Or “travail;” i. e. bitterness and weariness (through toil).Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-24The author speaks of the suffering of Judah and Jerusalem as his own.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 4-64-6. (Job 16:8).Read the comment

Topics related to Lamentations 3:5

• Afflictions and Adversities
• Despondency
• Pain

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• Offscouring
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Commentaries on Lamentations 3

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings