Lamentations 3:5

WEB

⁵He has built against me, and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

KJV

⁵He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.

BSB

⁵He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

FBV

⁵He has besieged me, surrounding me with bitterness and misery.

Extra References

Lamentations 3:19

¹⁹Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the bitterness.

¹⁵Therefore the LORD of Armies says concerning the prophets: “Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink poisoned water; for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has gone out into all the land.”

Job 19:8

⁸He has walled up my way so that I can’t pass, and has set darkness in my paths.

Psalms 69:21

²¹They also gave me poison for my food. In my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.

Jeremiah 9:15

¹⁵Therefore the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says, “Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.

Lamentations 3:7-9

⁷He has walled me about, so that I can’t go out. He has made my chain heavy. ⁸Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer. ⁹He has walled up my ways with cut stone. He has made my paths crooked.

Jeremiah 8:14

¹⁴“Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves! Let’s enter into the fortified cities, and let’s be silent there; for the LORD our God has put us to silence, and given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.