Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship. New Living Translation He has besieged and surrounded me with anguish and distress. English Standard Version he has besieged and enveloped me with bitterness and tribulation; Berean Standard Bible He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship. King James Bible He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail. New King James Version He has besieged me And surrounded me with bitterness and woe. New American Standard Bible He has besieged and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship. NASB 1995 He has besieged and encompassed me with bitterness and hardship. NASB 1977 He has besieged and encompassed me with bitterness and hardship. Legacy Standard Bible He has besieged and encompassed me with gall and hardship. Amplified Bible He has besieged and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship. Christian Standard Bible He has laid siege against me, encircling me with bitterness and hardship. Holman Christian Standard Bible He has laid siege against me, encircling me with bitterness and hardship. American Standard Version He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail. Aramaic Bible in Plain English He has built up against me and bitterness and desolation surrounded me* Brenton Septuagint Translation BETH. He has built against me, and compassed my head, and brought travail upon me. Contemporary English Version He attacked and surrounded me with hardships and trouble; Douay-Rheims Bible Beth. He hath built round about me, and he hath compassed me with gall and labour. English Revised Version He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail. GOD'S WORD® Translation He has attacked me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship. Good News Translation He has shut me in a prison of misery and anguish. International Standard Version He laid siege against me, surrounding me with bitterness and suffering. JPS Tanakh 1917 He hath builded against me, and compassed me With gall and travail. Literal Standard Version He has built up against me, | And sets around poverty and weariness. Majority Standard Bible He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship. New American Bible He has besieged me all around with poverty and hardship; NET Bible He has besieged and surrounded me with bitter hardship. New Revised Standard Version he has besieged and enveloped me with bitterness and tribulation; New Heart English Bible He has built against me, and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship. 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 bitterness and hardship. Young's Literal Translation He hath built up against me, And setteth round poverty and weariness. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Jeremiah's Afflictions…4He has worn away my flesh and skin; He has shattered my bones. 5He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship. 6He has made me dwell in darkness like those dead for ages.… Cross References Luke 21:20 But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, you will know that her desolation is near. Job 19:8 He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; He has veiled my paths with darkness. Jeremiah 23:15 Therefore 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." Lamentations 3:19 Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and the gall. Treasury of Scripture He has built against me, and compassed me with gall and travail. builded Lamentations 3:7-9 He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy… Job 19:8 He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths. gall Lamentations 3:19 Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. Psalm 69:21 They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. Jeremiah 8:14 Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD. Jump to Previous Besieged Bitter Bitterness Builded Built Compassed Encompassed Enveloped Gall Hardship Labor Poverty Round Shutting Sorrow Surrounded Toil Travail Tribulation Wall WearinessJump to Next Besieged Bitter Bitterness Builded Built Compassed Encompassed Enveloped Gall Hardship Labor Poverty Round Shutting Sorrow Surrounded Toil Travail Tribulation Wall WearinessLamentations 3 1. The prophet bewails his own calamities22. By the mercies of God, he nourishes his hope 37. He acknowledges God's justice 55. He prays for deliverance 64. And vengeance on his enemies (5) He hath builded.--The attack of sorrow is presented under the figure of a siege. In the next clause the figure is dropped. "Gall" stands, as in Jeremiah 8:14, for bitterest sorrow. "Travel" is the old English form of "travail," the two forms, originally identical, being now used with different meanings.Verse 5. - He hath builded against me, and compassed me. A figure from the siege of a town. Gall. For the true meaning of the word, see on Jeremiah 8:14. We need not trouble ourselves about it here, for the word is evidently used as a kind of "ideograph" for bitterness. Travel; literally, weariness. Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew He has besiegedבָּנָ֥ה (bā·nāh) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 1129: To build me עָלַ֛י (‘ā·lay) Preposition | first person common singular Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against and surrounded me וַיַּקַּ֖ף (way·yaq·qap̄) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 5362: To strike, to knock together, surround, circulate with bitterness רֹ֥אשׁ (rōš) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 7219: A poisonous plant, the poppy, poison and hardship. וּתְלָאָֽה׃ (ū·ṯə·lā·’āh) Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular Strong's 8513: Weariness, hardship Links Lamentations 3:5 NIVLamentations 3:5 NLT Lamentations 3:5 ESV Lamentations 3:5 NASB Lamentations 3:5 KJV Lamentations 3:5 BibleApps.com Lamentations 3:5 Biblia Paralela Lamentations 3:5 Chinese Bible Lamentations 3:5 French Bible Lamentations 3:5 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Lamentations 3:5 He has built against me and surrounded (Lam. La Lm) |
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