Lamentations 3:5
Modern Translations
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 Study Bible
He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

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.

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.

Contemporary English Version
He attacked and surrounded me with hardships and trouble;

Good News Translation
He has shut me in a prison of misery and anguish.

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

International Standard Version
He laid siege against me, surrounding me with bitterness and suffering.

NET Bible
He has besieged and surrounded me with bitter hardship.
Classic Translations
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.

King James 2000 Bible
He has besieged me, and surrounded me with gall and travail.

New Heart English Bible
He has built against me, and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

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

A Faithful Version
He has besieged me and has encircled me with bitterness and tribulation.

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.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall, and labour.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
He hath buylded rounde about me, and closed me in with gall and trauaile.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
He hath buylded rounde aboute me, & closed me in with gall and trauayle.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
He has built up against me, "" And sets around poverty and weariness.

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

Smith's Literal Translation
He built against me, and he will surround with poison and distress.

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

Catholic Public Domain Version
BETH. He has built all around me, and he has encircled me with gall and hardship.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
He has built up against me and bitterness and desolation surrounded me*

Lamsa Bible
He has built ramparts against me, and compassed me with bitterness and travail.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
He hath builded against me, and compassed me With gall and travail.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
BETH. He has built against me, and compassed my head, and brought travail upon me.
















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