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Lamentations 3:5
5He has fought against me from every side. He caused much trouble for me, so that I am very sad.
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
3He is completely against me. He causes me trouble all the time. 4God has caused my skin and my whole body to become old. He has broken my bones. He has fought against me from every side. He caused much trouble for me, so that I am very sad. 6He has brought me to this dark place. So I am like a person who has been dead for a long time. 7It is as if God has built high walls round me, and I cannot go out. My troubles are very bad. They hold me down like heavy chains.
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בָּנָ֥ה עָלַ֛י וַיַּקַּ֖ף רֹ֥אשׁ וּתְלָאָֽה׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Lamentations 3:5
- Lamentations 3:7It is as if God has built high walls round me, and I cannot go out. My troubles are very bad. They hold me down like heavy chains.
- Job 19:8God has stopped me so that I cannot move forward. He has made my path dark so that I cannot see the way to go.
- Lamentations 3:19Lord, please remember all my troubles, because I am sad. Remember that I am very lonely. My troubles are like poison for me.
- Psalms 69:21Instead, my enemies put poison in my food. When I was thirsty, they gave me vinegar to drink.
- Jeremiah 8:14The people say: ‘We should not sit here and do nothing. We must all go together into our strong cities. If we have to die, we will die there! The Lord our God has said that we must die. We have done bad things against him. He has decided to punish us with death. He has given us water to drink that has poison in it.
- Jeremiah 9:15So the Lord Almighty, Israel's God, says this: ‘I will punish my people with trouble and pain. I will give them food that is bitter. They will drink water that is poison.
- Jeremiah 23:15So I, the Lord Almighty, say this about these prophets: I will cause them to have much pain and trouble. They will eat bitter food. They will drink water that is poison. It is because of Jerusalem's prophets that people do wicked things everywhere in 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
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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
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