Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
He hath built up against me, and carried round me, fortifications and a trench;
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.
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.
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 hath worn out my flesh and my skin, hath broken my bones; 5 He hath built up against me, and carried round me, fortifications and a trench; 6 In dark places, hath he made me sit, like the dead of age-past times.
Cross References
Lamentations 3:19
Remember my humiliation and my fleeings, the wormwood and poison;
Jeremiah 23:15
Therefore, Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts Concerning the prophets, - Behold me! Feeding them with wormwood, And I will cause them to drink poisoned water, - For from the prophets of Jerusalem, hath there gone forth profanity unto all the land.
Job 19:8
My way, hath he walled up, that I cannot pass, and, upon my paths, hath he made darkness rest;
Psalm 69:21
But they put in my food - poison! And, for my thirst, they gave for my drink - vinegar!
Jeremiah 8:14
Why are, well sitting still? Gather yourselves together and let us enter the defenced cities And let us be silent there, - For, Yahweh our God, hath put us to silence And made us drink poisoned water, Because we have sinned against Yahweh.
Jeremiah 9:15
Therefore, Thus saith Yahweh of hosts, The God of Israel, Behold me! Feeding them, even this people, with wormwood, - And I will cause them to drink, poisoned water;
Lamentations 3:7-9
He hath walled up around me, that I cannot get out, hath weighted my fetter;