Lamentations 3:5
3 Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.
4 My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
6 He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.
7 He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- 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.
- DARBY
- He hath built against me, and encompassed [me] with gall and toil.
- BLB
- He has built up against me and surrounded me with bitterness and weariness;
- ÅB
- Han bygget en mur mot meg og omringet meg med bitterhet og strev.
- OTB
- Han har beleiret meg og omringet meg med bitterhet og nød.
- B1930
- Han bygget en mur mot mig og omringet mig med bitterhet og møie.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Lamentations 3:19
Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
Read in contextJeremiah 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.
Read in contextJob 19:8
He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
Read in contextLamentations 3:7–9
He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
Read in contextJeremiah 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.
Read in contextJeremiah 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.
Read in contextPsalms 69:21
They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
Read in context