The Prophet’s Afflictions
Lamentations 3:5
In 11 translations
- BSB
- He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
- KJV
- He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
- WEB
- He has built against me, and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
- ASV
- He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
- LSV
- He has built up against me, || And sets around poverty and weariness.
- YLT
- He hath built up against me, And setteth round poverty and weariness.
- DBY
- He hath built against me, and encompassed [me] with gall and toil.
- DRC
- Beth. He hath built round about me, and he hath compassed me with gall and labour.
- GNV
- He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall, and labour.
- JPS
- He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
- LXXE
- Beth. He has built against me, and compassed my head, and brought travail upon me.
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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- בָּנָ֥ה עָלַ֛י וַיַּקַּ֖ף רֹ֥אשׁ וּתְלָאָֽה׃
- LXX-Br
- ΒΗΘ. Ἀνῳκοδόμησε κατʼ ἐμοῦ, καὶ ἐκύκλωσε κεφαλήν μου, καὶ ἐμόχθησεν·
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).
Cross-references most cited first
- Lamentations 3:19Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and the gall.
- Jeremiah 23:15Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says concerning the prophets: “I will feed them wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink, for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has spread throughout the land.”
- Job 19:8He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; He has veiled my paths with darkness.
- Jeremiah 8:14Why are we just sitting here? Gather together, let us flee to the fortified cities and perish there, for the LORD our God has doomed us. He has given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
- Lamentations 3:7–9He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed me down with chains. Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer. He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked.
- Psalms 69:21They poisoned my food with gall and gave me vinegar to quench my thirst.
- Jeremiah 9:15Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I will feed this people wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.
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