Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
He has put up a wall against me, shutting me in with bitter sorrow.
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.
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.
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 My flesh and my skin have been used up by him and my bones broken. 5 He has put up a wall against me, shutting me in with bitter sorrow. 6 He has kept me in dark places, like those who have been long dead.
Cross References
Lamentations 3:19
Keep in mind my trouble and my wandering, the bitter root and the poison.
Jeremiah 23:15
So this is what the Lord of armies has said about the prophets: See, I will give them a bitter plant for their food, and bitter water for their drink: for from the prophets of Jerusalem unclean behaviour has gone out into all the land.
Job 19:8
My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark.
Psalm 69:21
They gave me poison for my food; and bitter wine for my drink.
Jeremiah 8:14
Why are we seated doing nothing? come together, and let us go to the walled towns, and let destruction overtake us there, for the Lord our God has sent destruction on us, and given us bitter water for our drink, because we have done evil against the Lord.
Jeremiah 9:15
So the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, I will give them, even this people, bitter plants for food and bitter water for drink.
Lamentations 3:7-9
He has put a wall round me, so that I am not able to go out; he has made great the weight of my chain.