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 against me hath he turned again and again his hand all the day. 4My flesh and my skin hath he wasted away, he hath broken my bones. He hath built against me, and encompassed [me] with gall and toil. 6He hath made me to dwell in dark places as those that have been long dead. 7He hath hedged me about that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.

Lamentations 3:5 word by word

בָּנָ֥ה עָלַ֛י וַיַּקַּ֖ף רֹ֥אשׁ וּתְלָאָֽה׃Read the interlinear

• builtבָּנָהbânâh · to buildH1129

Cross-references for Lamentations 3:5

• Lamentations 3:7He hath hedged me about that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
• Job 19:8He hath hedged up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
• Lamentations 3:19Remember thou mine affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and the gall.
• Psalms 69:21Yea, they gave me gall for my food, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
• Jeremiah 8:14Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fenced cities, and let us be silent there: for Jehovah our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against Jehovah.
• Jeremiah 9:15therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will feed this people with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink,
• Jeremiah 23:15Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts concerning the prophets: Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink water of gall; for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth 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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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