Lamentations 3:5
He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
Lamentations 3:5 in other translations
| BSB | He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship. |
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| 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. |
| YLT | He hath built up against me, And setteth round poverty and weariness. |
| DARBY | He hath built against me, and encompassed me with gall and toil. |
| BBE | He has put up a wall against me, shutting me in with bitter sorrow. |
| Webster | He hath built against me, and compassed me with gall and labor. |
What does Lamentations 3:5 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Lamentations 3:4-6
4-6. (Job 16:8).
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Lamentations 3:1-20
The faithful lament their calamities, and hope in God's mercies. Verses 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…
Lamentations 3:5 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Lamentations 3:5
- Lamentations 3:19
Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
- Jeremiah 23:15
Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land.
- Job 19:8
He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
- Lamentations 3:7-9
He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy. Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer. He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
- 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.
- Jeremiah 9:15
Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
- Psalms 69:21
They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
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Context
- Lamentations 3:4
My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
- Lamentations 3:5
He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
- Lamentations 3:6
He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.
Lamentations 3:5 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Edificó contra mí, y cercóme de tósigo y de trabajo. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Il a bâti contre moi, et m’a environné de fiel et de peine. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Bitterkeit und Mühsal hat er wider mich gebaut und mich damit umringt. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Ædificavit in gyro meo, et circumdedit me felle et labore. |