| Lamentations 3:5 Parallel Translations |  |
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| NASB: | He has besieged and encompassed me with bitterness and hardship. (NASB ©1995) |
| GWT: | He has attacked me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.(GOD'S WORD®) |
| KJV: | He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail. |
| ASV: | He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail. |
| BBE: | He has put up a wall against me, shutting me in with bitter sorrow. |
| DBY: | He hath built against me, and encompassed me with gall and toil. |
| ERV: | He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail. |
| JPS: | He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail. |
| WBS: | He hath built against me, and compassed me with gall and labor. |
| WEB: | He has built against me, and surrounded me with gall and travail. |
| YLT: | He hath built up against me, And setteth round poverty and weariness. |
| Lamentations 3:5 Cross References |
| XREF: | Job 19:8 "He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass, And He has put darkness on my paths.
Jeremiah 23:15 "Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets, 'Behold, I am going to feed them wormwood And make them drink poisonous water, For from the prophets of Jerusalem Pollution has gone forth into all the land.'"
Lamentations 3:19 Remember my affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and bitterness. (NASB ©1995) |
| Commentaries and Concordances |
| GSB: | 3:5 He hath {b} built against me, and surrounded [me] with gall and labour.
(b) He speaks this as one that felt God's heavy judgment, which he greatly feared, and therefore sets them out with this diversity of words. |
| WES: | 3:5 Builded - He hath built forts and batteries against my walls and houses. |
| MHC: | 3:1-20 The prophet relates the more gloomy and discouraging part of his experience, and how he found support and relief. In the time of his trial the Lord had become terrible to him. It was an affliction that was misery itself; for sin makes the cup of affliction a bitter cup. The struggle between unbelief and faith is often very severe. But the weakest believer is wrong, if he thinks that his strength and hope are perished from the Lord. |
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