Lamentations 3:5

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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A highly literal, word-for-word translation (ASV, 1901) augmented with Strong's numbering to connect English words to underlying Hebrew and Greek terms for study.

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Integrated Strong's numbering: Links English terms to underlying Hebrew and Greek words for deeper lexical study.
Formal equivalence: Prioritizes close alignment with source-language forms and structures.
Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Consistent lexical choices aid exegesis
Stable, longstanding scholarly text

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Archaic language reduces readability
Older textual basis compared to some modern translations
Strong's numbers are a concordance index, not full lexical definitions

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Referenced Verses

Lam 3:19 : 19 Remember mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
Jer 23:15 : 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.
Job 19:8 : 8 He hath walled up my way that I cannot pass, And hath set darkness in my paths.
Ps 69:21 : 21 They gave me also gall for my food; And in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
Jer 8:14 : 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.
Jer 9:15 : 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.
Lam 3:7-9 : 7 He hath walled me about, that I cannot go forth; he hath made my chain heavy. 8 Yea, when I cry, and call for help, he shutteth out my prayer. 9 He hath walled up my ways with hewn stone; he hath made my paths crooked.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

Lam 3:2-4
3 verses
83%
2He hath led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.
3Surely against me he turneth his hand again and again all the day.
4My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
Lam 3:6-7
2 verses
82%
6He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.
7He hath walled me about, that I cannot go forth; he hath made my chain heavy.
Lam 3:9-13
5 verses
81%
9He hath walled up my ways with hewn stone; he hath made my paths crooked.
10He is unto me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.
11He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate.
12He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
13He hath caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my reins.
Job 16:12-14
3 verses
80%
12I was at ease, and he brake me asunder; Yea, he hath taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces: He hath also set me up for his mark.
13His archers compass me round about; He cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; He poureth out my gall upon the ground.
14He breaketh me with breach upon breach; He runneth upon me like a giant.
Lam 3:15-17
3 verses
79%
15He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath sated me with wormwood.
16He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he hath covered me with ashes.
17And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace; I forgat prosperity.
Job 19:11-13
3 verses
78%
11He hath also kindled his wrath against me, And he counteth me unto him as [one of] his adversaries.
12His troops come on together, And cast up their way against me, And encamp round about my tent.
13He hath put my brethren far from me, And mine acquaintance are wholly estranged from me.
Lam 1:13-14
2 verses
78%
13From on high hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them; He hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: He hath made me desolate and faint all the day.
14The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand; They are knit together, they are come up upon my neck; He hath made my strength to fail: The Lord hath delivered me into their hands, against whom I am not able to stand.
Job 19:8-9
2 verses
77%
8He hath walled up my way that I cannot pass, And hath set darkness in my paths.
9He hath stripped me of my glory, And taken the crown from my head.
Ps 143:3-4
2 verses
76%
3For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; He hath smitten my life down to the ground: He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.
4Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; My heart within me is desolate.
Job 16:7-10
4 verses
76%
7But now he hath made me weary: Thou hast made desolate all my company.
8And thou hast laid fast hold on me, [which] is a witness [against me]: And my leanness riseth up against me, It testifieth to my face.
9He hath torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me; He hath gnashed upon me with his teeth: Mine adversary sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
10They have gaped upon me with their mouth; They have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully: They gather themselves together against me.
Lam 3:53
76%
53They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone upon me.
Job 33:10-11
2 verses
75%
10Behold, he findeth occasions against me, He counteth me for his enemy:
11He putteth my feet in the stocks, He marketh all my paths.
Job 9:18
75%
18He will not suffer me to take my breath, But filleth me with bitterness.
Job 17:6
75%
6But he hath made me a byword of the people; And they spit in my face.
Ps 109:3
75%
3They have compassed me about also with words of hatred, And fought against me without a cause.
Lam 3:19
75%
19Remember mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
Ps 22:16
74%
16For dogs have compassed me: A company of evil-doers have inclosed me; They pierced my hands and my feet.
Ps 55:3-4
2 verses
74%
3Because of the voice of the enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked; For they cast iniquity upon me, And in anger they persecute me.
4My heart is sore pained within me: And the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
Ps 31:10
74%
10For my life is spent with sorrow, And my years with sighing: My strength faileth because of mine iniquity, And my bones are wasted away.
Ps 35:15
74%
15But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: The abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew [it] not; They did tear me, and ceased not:
Ps 129:3
74%
3The plowers plowed upon my back; They made long their furrows.
Job 19:6
73%
6Know now that God hath subverted me [in my cause], And hath compassed me with his net.
Lam 1:21
73%
21They have heard that I sigh; there is none to comfort me; all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done it: Thou wilt bring the day that thou hast proclaimed, and they shall be like unto me.
Job 30:16
73%
16And now my soul is poured out within me; Days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
Ps 88:17
73%
17They came round about me like water all the day long; They compassed me about together.
Job 30:11
73%
11For he hath loosed his cord, and afflicted me; And they have cast off the bridle before me.
Job 30:13
73%
13They mar my path, They set forward my calamity, [Even] men that have no helper.
Job 30:18
73%
18By [God's] great force is my garment disfigured; It bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
Ps 18:5
73%
5The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of death came upon me.