Lamentations 3:5 KJV — MannaFest

Lamentations 3:5

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

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ASV

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

WEB

He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

YLT

He hath built up against me, And setteth round poverty and weariness.

DBT

He hath built against me, and encompassed [me] with gall and toil.

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Lamentations — Five poems over the ruin of Jerusalem. The first four are alphabetic acrostics — every letter of the Hebrew alphabet drafted to hold the weight of grief. At the book's centre, mercy renewed every morning.

Author: Traditionally Jeremiah (cf. 2 Chron 35:25); the book itself is anonymous
Date: Shortly after Jerusalem's fall, c. 586 BC

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Lamentations 3:19
Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
Jeremiah 23:15
Therefore thus saith 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 profaneness gone forth into all the land.
Job 19:8
He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
Jeremiah 8:14
Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the Lord our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the Lord.
Jeremiah 9:15
Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.

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): " He has built against me, as forts and batteries are built against a besieged city. Where there was a way open it is now quite made up: He has compassed me on ever side with gall and travel;

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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LAM 3:5JER 8:14 JER 9:15
Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
LAM 3:5LAM 3:19 LAM 3:15
Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
LAM 3:5JER 8:14 PSA 69:21
Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
LAM 3:5JER 23:15 JER 8:14
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
LAM 3:5JER 8:14 JER 23:15
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
LAM 3:5JOB 19:8 JOB 3:23
LAM 3:5JOB 19:8 LAM 3:7
LAM 3:5JOB 19:8 PRO 4:19

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