New King James Version
Lamentations 3:5
5He has besieged me And surrounded me with bitterness and woe.
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 Living Translation (NLT)He has besieged and surrounded me with anguish and distress.
Context of Lamentations 3:5
3Surely He has turned His hand against me Time and time again throughout the day. 4He has aged my flesh and my skin, And broken my bones. He has besieged me And surrounded me with bitterness and woe. 6He has set me in dark places Like the dead of long ago. 7He has hedged me in so that I cannot get out; He has made my chain heavy.
Read all of Lamentations 3Lamentations 3:5 word by word
בָּנָ֥ה עָלַ֛י וַיַּקַּ֖ף רֹ֥אשׁ וּתְלָאָֽה׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Lamentations 3:5
- Lamentations 3:7He has hedged me in so that I cannot get out; He has made my chain heavy.
- Job 19:8He has fenced up my way, so that I cannot pass; And He has set darkness in my paths.
- Lamentations 3:19Remember my affliction and roaming, The wormwood and the gall.
- Psalms 69:21They also gave me gall for my food, And for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
- Jeremiah 8:14“Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves, And let us enter the fortified cities, And let us be silent there. For the Lord our God has put us to silence And given us water of gall to drink, Because 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 water of gall to drink.
- Jeremiah 23:15“Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts concerning the prophets: ‘Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, And make them drink the water of gall; For from the prophets of Jerusalem Profaneness has gone out 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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