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 repeatedly attacks me, he turns his hand against me all day long. ב (Bet) 4He has made my mortal skin waste away; he has broken my bones. He has besieged and surrounded me with bitter hardship. 6He has made me reside in deepest darkness like those who died long ago. ג (Gimel) 7He has walled me in so that I cannot get out; he has weighted me down with heavy prison chains.

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 walled me in so that I cannot get out; he has weighted me down with heavy prison chains.
• Job 19:8He has blocked my way so I cannot pass, and has set darkness over my paths.
• Lamentations 3:19Remember my impoverished and homeless condition, which is a bitter poison.
• Psalms 69:21They put bitter poison into my food, and to quench my thirst they give me vinegar to drink.
• Jeremiah 8:14The people say, “Why are we just sitting here? Let us gather together inside the fortified cities. Let us at least die there fighting, since the Lord our God has condemned us to die. He has condemned us to drink the poison waters of judgment because we have sinned against him.
• Jeremiah 9:15So then, listen to what I, the Lord God of Israel who rules over all, say. ‘I will make these people eat the bitter food of suffering and drink the poison water of judgment.
• Jeremiah 23:15So then I, the Lord who rules over all, have something to say concerning the prophets of Jerusalem: ‘I will make these prophets eat the bitter food of suffering and drink the poison water of judgment. For the prophets of Jerusalem are the reason that ungodliness has spread 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

In the dictionaries

• Chain
• Derision
• Grieve
• Imagination
• Offscouring
• Poetry
• Poison
• Acrostic
• Alphabet
• Builder

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