New American Standard Bible 2020
Lamentations 3:5-19
5He has 12besieged and surrounded me with 34bitterness and hardship.6He has made me live in 5dark places, Like those who have long been dead.7He has 6walled me in so that I cannot go out; He has made my 78chain heavy.8Even when I cry out and call for help, He 9shuts out my prayer.9He has 10blocked my ways with cut stone; He has twisted my paths.10He is to me like a bear lying in wait, Like a lion in secret places.11He has made my ways deviate, and 11torn me to pieces; He has made me desolate.12He 12bent His bow And 13took aim at me as a target for the arrow.13He made the 14arrows of His 15quiver Enter my 16inward parts.14I have become a 17laughingstock to all my people, Their 18song of ridicule all the day.15He has 19filled me with bitterness, He has made me drink plenty of wormwood.16He has also 20made my teeth grind with 21gravel; He has made me cower in the 22dust.17My soul has been excluded 23from peace; I have forgotten 24happiness.18So I say, “My 25strength has failed, And so has my 26hope from the Lord.”
19Remember my misery and my homelessness, the 27wormwood and 28bitterness.
Notes
- 1. Lamentations 3:5 Lit built against ↩
- 2. Lamentations 3:5 Job 19:8 ↩
- 3. Lamentations 3:5 Lit poison ↩
- 4. Lamentations 3:5 Jer 23:15; Lam 3:19 ↩
- 5. Lamentations 3:6 Ps 88:5, 6; 143:3 ↩
- 6. Lamentations 3:7 Job 3:23; 19:8 ↩
- 7. Lamentations 3:7 Lit bronze piece ↩
- 8. Lamentations 3:7 Jer 40:4 ↩
- 9. Lamentations 3:8 Job 30:20; Ps 22:2 ↩
- 10. Lamentations 3:9 Is 63:17; Hos 2:6 ↩
- 11. Lamentations 3:11 Job 16:12, 13; Jer 15:3; Hos 6:1 ↩
- 12. Lamentations 3:12 Ps 7:12; Lam 2:4 ↩
- 13. Lamentations 3:12 Job 6:4; 7:20; Ps 38:2 ↩
- 14. Lamentations 3:13 Lit sons ↩
- 15. Lamentations 3:13 Jer 5:16 ↩
- 16. Lamentations 3:13 Lit kidneys ↩
- 17. Lamentations 3:14 Ps 22:6, 7; 123:4; Jer 20:7 ↩
- 18. Lamentations 3:14 Job 30:9; Lam 3:63 ↩
- 19. Lamentations 3:15 Jer 9:15 ↩
- 20. Lamentations 3:16 Ps 3:7; 58:6 ↩
- 21. Lamentations 3:16 Prov 20:17 ↩
- 22. Lamentations 3:16 Jer 6:26 ↩
- 23. Lamentations 3:17 Is 59:11; Jer 12:12 ↩
- 24. Lamentations 3:17 Lit good ↩
- 25. Lamentations 3:18 Or splendor ↩
- 26. Lamentations 3:18 Job 17:15; Ezek 37:11 ↩
- 27. Lamentations 3:19 Jer 9:15; Lam 3:5, 15 ↩
- 28. Lamentations 3:19 Lit poison ↩
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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