Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
He built against me, and he will surround with poison and distress.
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.
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 wasted away my flesh and my skin; he broke my bones. 5 He built against me, and he will surround with poison and distress. 6 He caused me to dwell in darknesses as the dead of old.
Cross References
Lamentations 3:19
Remembering my affliction and my bitterness, the wormwood and the poison.
Jeremiah 23:15
For this, thus said Jehovah of armies concerning the prophets, Behold me feeding them with wormwood, and I caused to drink the water of poison: for from the prophets of Jerusalem went forth profaneness to all the earth.
Job 19:8
He walled up my path and I shall not pass, and he will set darkness upon my beaten paths.
Psalm 69:21
And they will give my food poison, and for my thirst they will give me vinegar to drink.
Jeremiah 8:14
For what are we sitting? gather ye together and we will go into the fortified cities, and we shall be silent there: for Jehovah our God caused us to cease, and he will give us to drink the water of poison, for we sinned against Jehovah.
Jeremiah 9:15
For this, thus said Jehovah of armies, God of Israel: Behold me causing this people to eat wormwood, and I gave them to drink water of poison.
Lamentations 3:7-9
He walled about me and I shall not go forth: he loaded my brass.