Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
He laid siege against me, surrounding me with bitterness and suffering.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
Holman Bible
encircling me with bitterness and hardship.
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 He made my flesh and skin prematurely old; he broke my bones. 5 He laid siege against me, surrounding me with bitterness and suffering. 6 He has forced me to live in darkness, like those who are long dead.
Cross References
Lamentations 3:19
Remember my affliction and homelessness wormwood and gall!
Jeremiah 23:15
Therefore, this is what the LORD God of the Heavenly Armies says about the prophets, "I'm about to make them eat wormwood and drink poisoned water, because godlessness has spread from the prophets of Jerusalem throughout the land."
Job 19:8
He blocked my path, so I cannot pass; and he turned out the lights on my pathways.
Psalm 69:21
They put poison in my food, in my thirst they forced me to drink vinegar.
Jeremiah 8:14
Why are we sitting here? Join together! Let's go to the fortified cities and perish there! For the LORD our God has condemned us to perish and given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against him.
Jeremiah 9:15
Therefore, this is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, the God of Israel, says: "Look, I'll make these people eat wormwood and drink poisoned water.
Lamentations 3:7-9
He has walled me in so I cannot escape; he placed heavy chains on me.