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

3He beat me again and again all day long. 4He has made my flesh and my skin waste away. He has broken my bones. He has attacked me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship. 6He has made me live in darkness, like those who died a long time ago. 7He has blocked me so that I can’t get out. He has put heavy chains on me.

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 has blocked me so that I can’t get out. He has put heavy chains on me.
• Job 19:8“God has blocked my path so that I can’t go on. He has made my paths dark.
• Lamentations 3:19Remember my suffering and my ⌞aimless⌟ wandering, the wormwood and poison.
• Psalms 69:21They poisoned my food, and when I was thirsty, they gave me vinegar to drink.
• Jeremiah 8:14Why are we just sitting here? Let’s get up! Let’s go into the fortified cities and die there. The Lord our God has condemned us to die. He has given us poison to drink because we have sinned against the Lord.
• Jeremiah 9:15This is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: I am going to feed these people bitterness and give them poison to drink.
• Jeremiah 23:15This is what the Lord of Armies says about the prophets: I will give them wormwood to eat and poison to drink. The prophets of Jerusalem have spread godlessness throughout 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