Parallel Verses
Holman Bible
encircling me with bitterness and hardship.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
International Standard Version
He laid siege against me, surrounding me with bitterness and suffering.
A Conservative Version
He has built against me, and encompassed me with gall and travail.
American Standard Version
He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
Amplified
He has besieged and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
Bible in Basic English
He has put up a wall against me, shutting me in with bitter sorrow.
Darby Translation
He hath built against me, and encompassed me with gall and toil.
Julia Smith Translation
He built against me, and he will surround with poison and distress.
King James 2000
He has besieged me, and surrounded me with gall and travail.
Lexham Expanded Bible
{He has besieged} and engulfed me with bitterness and hardship.
Modern King James verseion
He built against me and has circled me with bitterness and hardship.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
He hath builded round about me, and closed me in with gall and travail.
NET Bible
He has besieged and surrounded me with bitter hardship.
New Heart English Bible
He has built against me, and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
The Emphasized Bible
He hath built up against me, and carried round me, fortifications and a trench;
Webster
He hath built against me, and compassed me with gall and labor.
World English Bible
He has built against me, and surrounded me with gall and travail.
Youngs Literal Translation
He hath built up against me, And setteth round poverty and weariness.
Interlinear
Banah
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Lamentations 3:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel's Affliction
4
ב Bet
He has shattered my bones.
encircling me with bitterness and hardship.
like those who have been dead for ages.
Cross References
Lamentations 3:19
ז Zayin
the wormwood and the poison.
Jeremiah 23:15
Therefore, this is what the Lord of Hosts says concerning the prophets:
and give them poisoned water to drink,
for from the prophets of Jerusalem
ungodliness
Job 19:8
He has veiled my paths with darkness.
Psalm 69:21
and for my thirst
they gave me vinegar to drink.
Jeremiah 8:14
Gather together; let us enter the fortified cities
and perish there,
for the Lord our God has destroyed
He has given us poisoned water to drink,
because we have sinned against the Lord.
Jeremiah 9:15
Therefore, this is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “I am about to feed this people wormwood
Lamentations 3:7-9
ג Gimel
He has weighed me down with chains.