New American Standard Bible 1995
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 He has turned His hand Repeatedly all the day. 4He has caused my flesh and my skin to waste away, He has broken my bones. He has besieged and encompassed me with bitterness and hardship. 6In dark places He has made me dwell, Like those who have long been dead. 7He has walled me in so that I cannot go out; He has made my chain heavy.
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בָּנָ֥ה עָלַ֛י וַיַּקַּ֖ף רֹ֥אשׁ וּתְלָאָֽה׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Lamentations 3:5
- Lamentations 3:7He has walled me in so that I cannot go out; He has made my chain heavy.
- Job 19:8He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass, And He has put darkness on my paths.
- Lamentations 3:19Remember my affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and bitterness.
- Psalms 69:21They also gave me gall for my food And for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
- Jeremiah 8:14Why are we sitting still? Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the fortified cities And let us perish there, Because the Lord our God has doomed us And given us poisoned water to drink, For 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 poisoned water to drink.
- Jeremiah 23:15Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts concerning the prophets, ‘Behold, I am going to feed them wormwood And make them drink poisonous water, For from the prophets of Jerusalem Pollution has 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
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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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