Lamentations 3:5

Lamentations chapter 3 · verse 5 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

World English Bible · 2000

He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.

King James Version · 1611

He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.

American Standard Version · 1901

He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.

v.4My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

v.5This passage

v.6He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Jeremiah 9:15
therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
Jeremiah 8:14
Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there; for Jehovah our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against Jehovah.
Job 19:8
He hath walled up my way that I cannot pass, And hath set darkness in my paths.
Psalms 69:21
They gave me also gall for my food; And in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
Jeremiah 23:15
Therefore thus saith Jehovah 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 ungodliness gone forth into all the land.
Lamentations 3:7
He hath walled me about, that I cannot go forth; he hath made my chain heavy.