Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
He hath builded round about me, and closed me in with gall and travail.
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.
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 {Beth} My flesh and my skin hath he made old, my bones hath he bruised. 5 He hath builded round about me, and closed me in with gall and travail. 6 He hath set me in darkness, as they that be dead forever.
Cross References
Lamentations 3:19
{Zayin} O remember yet my misery and my trouble; the wormwood and the gall.
Jeremiah 23:15
Therefore thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts concerning the prophets, "Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall. For from the prophets of Jerusalem is the sickness of hypocrisy come into all the land."
Job 19:8
"He hath hedged up my way, that I cannot pass; he hath set darkness in my gate.
Psalm 69:21
They gave me gall to eat, and when I was thirsty they gave me vinegar to drink.
Jeremiah 8:14
Why prolong we the time? Let us gather ourselves together, and go into the strong city; there shall we be in rest. For the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water mixed with gall to drink: because we have sinned against him.
Jeremiah 9:15
Therefore, thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, "Behold, I will feed this people with wormwood, and give them gall to drink.
Lamentations 3:7-9
{Gimel} He hath so hedged me in, that I cannot get out; and hath laid heavy links upon me.