Lamentations 3:5
New International Version
He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

New Living Translation
He has besieged and surrounded me with anguish and distress.

English Standard Version
he has besieged and enveloped me with bitterness and tribulation;

Berean Standard Bible
He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

King James Bible
He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.

New King James Version
He has besieged me And surrounded me with bitterness and woe.

New American Standard Bible
He has besieged and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

NASB 1995
He has besieged and encompassed me with bitterness and hardship.

NASB 1977
He has besieged and encompassed me with bitterness and hardship.

Legacy Standard Bible
He has besieged and encompassed me with gall and hardship.

Amplified Bible
He has besieged and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

Christian Standard Bible
He has laid siege against me, encircling me with bitterness and hardship.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He has laid siege against me, encircling me with bitterness and hardship.

American Standard Version
He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
He has built up against me and bitterness and desolation surrounded me*

Brenton Septuagint Translation
BETH. He has built against me, and compassed my head, and brought travail upon me.

Contemporary English Version
He attacked and surrounded me with hardships and trouble;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Beth. He hath built round about me, and he hath compassed me with gall and labour.

English Revised Version
He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
He has attacked me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

Good News Translation
He has shut me in a prison of misery and anguish.

International Standard Version
He laid siege against me, surrounding me with bitterness and suffering.

JPS Tanakh 1917
He hath builded against me, and compassed me With gall and travail.

Literal Standard Version
He has built up against me, | And sets around poverty and weariness.

Majority Standard Bible
He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

New American Bible
He has besieged me all around with poverty and hardship;

NET Bible
He has besieged and surrounded me with bitter hardship.

New Revised Standard Version
he has besieged and enveloped me with bitterness and tribulation;

New Heart English Bible
He has built against me, and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

Webster's Bible Translation
He hath built against me, and compassed me with gall and labor.

World English Bible
He has built against me, and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

Young's Literal Translation
He hath built up against me, And setteth round poverty and weariness.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Jeremiah's Afflictions
4He has worn away my flesh and skin; He has shattered my bones. 5He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship. 6He has made me dwell in darkness like those dead for ages.…

Cross References
Luke 21:20
But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, you will know that her desolation is near.

Job 19:8
He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; He has veiled my paths with darkness.

Jeremiah 23:15
Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says concerning the prophets: "I will feed them wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink, for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has spread throughout the land."

Lamentations 3:19
Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and the gall.


Treasury of Scripture

He has built against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.

builded

Lamentations 3:7-9
He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy…

Job 19:8
He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.

gall

Lamentations 3:19
Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

Psalm 69:21
They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

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.

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Lamentations 3
1. The prophet bewails his own calamities
22. By the mercies of God, he nourishes his hope
37. He acknowledges God's justice
55. He prays for deliverance
64. And vengeance on his enemies














(5) He hath builded.--The attack of sorrow is presented under the figure of a siege. In the next clause the figure is dropped. "Gall" stands, as in Jeremiah 8:14, for bitterest sorrow. "Travel" is the old English form of "travail," the two forms, originally identical, being now used with different meanings.

Verse 5. - He hath builded against me, and compassed me. A figure from the siege of a town. Gall. For the true meaning of the word, see on Jeremiah 8:14. We need not trouble ourselves about it here, for the word is evidently used as a kind of "ideograph" for bitterness. Travel; literally, weariness.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
He has besieged
בָּנָ֥ה (bā·nāh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1129: To build

me
עָלַ֛י (‘ā·lay)
Preposition | first person common singular
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

and surrounded me
וַיַּקַּ֖ף (way·yaq·qap̄)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5362: To strike, to knock together, surround, circulate

with bitterness
רֹ֥אשׁ (rōš)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7219: A poisonous plant, the poppy, poison

and hardship.
וּתְלָאָֽה׃ (ū·ṯə·lā·’āh)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 8513: Weariness, hardship


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