Lamentations 3:5 BSB

Lamentations 3:5

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

BSB

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ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

He hath builded against me,.... Fortresses, as the Targum adds; as when forts and batteries were raised by the Chaldeans against the city of Jerusalem, in which the prophet was: and compassed me with gall and travail; or "weariness" (e); the same with gall and wormwood, Lam 3:19; as Jarchi observes. The sense is, he was surrounded with sorrow, affliction, and misery, which were as disagreeable as gall; or like poison that drank up his spirits, and made him weary of his life. Thus our Lord was exceeding sorrowful, even unto death; περιλυπος, encompassed with sorrows, Mat 26:

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Original language & word study

5 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
בָּנָ֥ה	ba.Nah	he has built	H1129 →
עָלַ֛י	'a.Lai	on me	H5921 →
וַיַּקַּ֖ף	vai.ya.Kaf	and he has surrounded [me]	H5362 →
רֹ֥אשׁ	rosh	poison	H7219 →
וּתְלָאָֽה׃	u.te.la.'Ah	and hardship	H8513 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Jeremiah 8:14
Why are we just sitting here? Gather together, let us flee to the fortified cities and perish there, for the LORD our God has doomed us. He has given us poisoned water to drink,…
leads to
- Jeremiah 9:15
  Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I will feed this people wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.
  Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
- Psalms 69:21
  They poisoned my food with gall and gave me vinegar to quench my thirst.
  Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
- Jeremiah 23:15
  Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says concerning the prophets: “I will feed them wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink, for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has spread throughout…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Lamentations 3:19
Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and the gall.
leads to
- Lamentations 3:15
  He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood.
  Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
Through
Jeremiah 23:15
Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says concerning the prophets: “I will feed them wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink, for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has spread throughout…
leads to
- Jeremiah 8:14
  Why are we just sitting here? Gather together, let us flee to the fortified cities and perish there, for the LORD our God has doomed us. He has given us poisoned water to drink,…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Job 19:8
He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; He has veiled my paths with darkness.
leads to
- Job 3:23
  Why is life given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?
- Lamentations 3:7
  He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed me down with chains.
- Proverbs 4:19
  But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom; they do not know what makes them stumble.

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06About Lamentations

Where the connections lead

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The walk

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