Lamentations 3:5
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New International Version (©1984)
He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

New Living Translation (©2007)
He has besieged and surrounded me with anguish and distress.

English Standard Version (©2001)
he has besieged and enveloped me with bitterness and tribulation;

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
He has besieged and encompassed me with bitterness and hardship.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
He has attacked me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

King James Bible
He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.

American King James Version
He has built against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.

American Standard Version
He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.

Bible in Basic English
He has put up a wall against me, shutting me in with bitter sorrow.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Beth. He hath built round about me, and he hath compassed me with gall and labour.

Darby Bible Translation
He hath built against me, and encompassed me with gall and toil.

English Revised Version
He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.

Webster's Bible Translation
He hath built against me, and compassed me with gall and labor.

World English Bible
He has built against me, and surrounded me with gall and travail.

Young's Literal Translation
He hath built up against me, And setteth round poverty and weariness.

Geneva Study Bible

He hath {b} built against me, and surrounded me with gall and labour.

(b) He speaks this as one that felt God's heavy judgment, which he greatly feared, and therefore sets them out with this diversity of words.

Wesley's Notes

3:5 Builded - He hath built forts and batteries against my walls and houses.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

5. builded-mounds, as against a besieged city, so as to allow none to escape (so La 3:7, 9).

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

3:1-20 The prophet relates the more gloomy and discouraging part of his experience, and how he found support and relief. In the time of his trial the Lord had become terrible to him. It was an affliction that was misery itself; for sin makes the cup of affliction a bitter cup. The struggle between unbelief and faith is often very severe. But the weakest believer is wrong, if he thinks that his strength and hope are perished from the Lord.


Job 19:8 "He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass, And He has put darkness on my paths.
Jeremiah 23:15 "Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets, 'Behold, I am going to feed them wormwood And make them drink poisonous water, For from the prophets of Jerusalem Pollution has gone forth into all the land.'"
Lamentations 3:19 Remember my affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and bitterness. (NASB ©1995)

Besieged Bitter Bitterness Builded Built Compassed Encompassed Enveloped Gall Hardship Labor Poverty Round Shutting Sorrow Surrounded Toil Travail Tribulation Wall Weariness

He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.

builded La 3:7-9 Job 19:8

gall La 3:19 Ps 69:21 Jer 8:14 9:15 23:15

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