New American Standard Bible 1995
Lamentations 3:5-19
5He has 1besieged and encompassed me with 2bitterness and hardship.6In 3dark places He has made me dwell, Like those who have long been dead.7He has 4walled me in so that I cannot go out; He has made my 56chain heavy.8Even when I cry out and call for help, He 7shuts out my prayer.9He has 8blocked my ways with hewn stone; He has made my paths crooked.10He is to me like a bear lying in wait, Like a lion in secret places.11He has turned aside my ways and 9torn me to pieces; He has made me desolate.12He 10bent His bow And 11set me as a target for the arrow.13He made the 12arrows of His 13quiver To enter into my 14inward parts.14I have become a 15laughingstock to all my people, Their mocking 16song all the day.15He has 17filled me with bitterness, He has made me drunk with wormwood.16He has 18broken my teeth with 19gravel; He has made me cower in the 20dust.17My soul has been rejected 21from peace; I have forgotten 22happiness.18So I say, “My strength has perished, And so has my 23hope from the Lord.”
19Remember my affliction and my 24wandering, the 25wormwood and bitterness.
Notes
- 1. Lamentations 3:5 Job 19:8 ↩
- 2. Lamentations 3:5 Jer 23:15; Lam 3:19 ↩
- 3. Lamentations 3:6 Ps 88:5, 6; 143:3 ↩
- 4. Lamentations 3:7 Job 3:23; 19:8 ↩
- 5. Lamentations 3:7 Lit bronze piece ↩
- 6. Lamentations 3:7 Jer 40:4 ↩
- 7. Lamentations 3:8 Job 30:20; Ps 22:2 ↩
- 8. Lamentations 3:9 Is 63:17; Hos 2:6 ↩
- 9. Lamentations 3:11 Job 16:12, 13; Jer 15:3; Hos 6:1 ↩
- 10. Lamentations 3:12 Ps 7:12; Lam 2:4 ↩
- 11. Lamentations 3:12 Job 6:4; 7:20; Ps 38:2 ↩
- 12. Lamentations 3:13 Lit sons ↩
- 13. Lamentations 3:13 Jer 5:16 ↩
- 14. Lamentations 3:13 Lit kidneys ↩
- 15. Lamentations 3:14 Ps 22:6, 7; 123:4; Jer 20:7 ↩
- 16. Lamentations 3:14 Job 30:9; Lam 3:63 ↩
- 17. Lamentations 3:15 Jer 9:15 ↩
- 18. Lamentations 3:16 Ps 3:7; 58:6 ↩
- 19. Lamentations 3:16 Prov 20:17 ↩
- 20. Lamentations 3:16 Jer 6:26 ↩
- 21. Lamentations 3:17 Is 59:11; Jer 12:12 ↩
- 22. Lamentations 3:17 Lit good ↩
- 23. Lamentations 3:18 Job 17:15; Ezek 37:11 ↩
- 24. Lamentations 3:19 Or bitterness ↩
- 25. Lamentations 3:19 Jer 9:15; Lam 3:5, 15 ↩
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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