Tree of Life Version
Lamentations 3:5
5He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
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, He has turned His hand against me again and again all day long. 4He made my flesh and my skin waste away, broken my bones. He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship. 6He made me dwell in dark places like those long dead. 7He has walled me in so I cannot get out. He 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 walled me in so I cannot get out. He made my chain heavy.
- Job 19:8He has blocked my way so I cannot pass, and has shrouded my path in darkness.
- Lamentations 3:19Remember my affliction my homelessness, bitterness and gall.
- Psalms 69:21Scorn has broken my heart, so I am sick. I looked for sympathy, but there was none, for comforters, but found none.
- Jeremiah 8:14“Why are we sitting here? Assemble! Let us flee to the fortified cities and perish there! For Adonai Eloheinu has silenced us and given us poisoned water to drink. For we have sinned against Adonai.
- Jeremiah 9:15I will scatter them among the nations whom neither they nor their fathers have known. I will pursue them with the sword, until I have finished with them.”
- Jeremiah 23:15Therefore thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot concerning the prophets: “I myself will feed them wormwood and make them drink poisoned water. For from the prophets of Jerusalem pollution has spread 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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