English Standard Version
Lamentations 3:5
5he has besieged and enveloped me with bitterness and tribulation;
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.
- New King James Version (NKJV)He has besieged me And surrounded me with bitterness and woe.
- New Living Translation (NLT)He has besieged and surrounded me with anguish and distress.
Context of Lamentations 3:5
3surely against me he turns his hand again and again the whole day long. 4He has made my flesh and my skin waste away; he has broken my bones; he has besieged and enveloped me with bitterness and tribulation; 6he has made me dwell in darkness like the dead of long ago. 7He has walled me about so that I cannot escape; he has made my chains heavy;
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בָּנָ֥ה עָלַ֛י וַיַּקַּ֖ף רֹ֥אשׁ וּתְלָאָֽה׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Lamentations 3:5
- Lamentations 3:7He has walled me about so that I cannot escape; he has made my chains heavy;
- Job 19:8He has walled up my way, so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness upon my paths.
- Lamentations 3:19Remember my affliction and my wanderings, the wormwood and the gall!
- Psalms 69:21They gave me poison for food, and for my thirst they gave me sour wine to drink.
- Jeremiah 8:14Why do we sit still? Gather together; let us go into the fortified cities and perish there, for the Lord our God has doomed us to perish and has given us poisoned 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 this people with bitter food, and give them poisonous water to drink.
- Jeremiah 23:15Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts concerning the prophets: "Behold, I will feed them with bitter food and give them poisoned water to drink, for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has gone out 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
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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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