Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
He built against me and has circled me with bitterness and hardship.
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 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 has wasted my flesh and my skin; He has broken my bones. 5 He built against me and has circled me with bitterness and hardship. 6 He has made me live in dark places, like the dead of old.
Cross References
Lamentations 3:19
Remember my affliction and my wandering, as wormwood and bitterness.
Jeremiah 23:15
So Jehovah of Hosts says this concerning the prophets: Behold, I will feed them wormwood, and make them drink poisonous water; for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has gone forth into all the land.
Job 19:8
He has fenced up my way so that I cannot pass, and He has set darkness in my paths.
Psalm 69:21
They also gave Me gall for my food; and in My thirst they gave Me vinegar to drink.
Jeremiah 8:14
Why do we sit still? Gather yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there. For Jehovah our God has put us to silence, and has given us poisonous water to drink, because we have sinned against Jehovah.
Jeremiah 9:15
Therefore so says Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and make them drink poisonous water.
Lamentations 3:7-9
He has set a fence around me and I cannot go out; He has made my bronze chain heavy.