Lamentations 3:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

He has put up a wall against me, shutting me in with bitter sorrow.

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Referenced Verses

  • Lam 3:19 : 19 Keep in mind my trouble and my wandering, the bitter root and the poison.
  • Jer 23:15 : 15 So this is what the Lord of armies has said about the prophets: See, I will give them a bitter plant for their food, and bitter water for their drink: for from the prophets of Jerusalem unclean behaviour has gone out into all the land.
  • Job 19:8 : 8 My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark.
  • Ps 69:21 : 21 They gave me poison for my food; and bitter wine for my drink.
  • Jer 8:14 : 14 Why are we seated doing nothing? come together, and let us go to the walled towns, and let destruction overtake us there, for the Lord our God has sent destruction on us, and given us bitter water for our drink, because we have done evil against the Lord.
  • Jer 9:15 : 15 So the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, I will give them, even this people, bitter plants for food and bitter water for drink.
  • Lam 3:7-9 : 7 He has put a wall round me, so that I am not able to go out; he has made great the weight of my chain. 8 Even when I send up a cry for help, he keeps my prayer shut out. 9 He has put up a wall of cut stones about my ways, he has made my roads twisted.

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  • Lam 3:2-4
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    2By him I have been made to go in the dark where there is no light.

    3Truly against me his hand has been turned again and again all the day.

    4My flesh and my skin have been used up by him and my bones broken.

  • Lam 3:6-7
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    6He has kept me in dark places, like those who have been long dead.

    7He has put a wall round me, so that I am not able to go out; he has made great the weight of my chain.

  • Lam 3:9-13
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    9He has put up a wall of cut stones about my ways, he has made my roads twisted.

    10He is like a bear waiting for me, like a lion in secret places.

    11By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste.

    12With his bow bent, he has made me the mark for his arrows.

    13He has let loose his arrows into the inmost parts of my body.

  • Job 16:12-14
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    12I was in comfort, but I have been broken up by his hands; he has taken me by the neck, shaking me to bits; he has put me up as a mark for his arrows.

    13His bowmen come round about me; their arrows go through my body without mercy; my life is drained out on the earth.

    14I am broken with wound after wound; he comes rushing on me like a man of war.

  • Lam 3:15-17
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    79%

    15He has made my life nothing but pain, he has given me the bitter root in full measure.

    16By him my teeth have been broken with crushed stones, and I am bent low in the dust.

    17My soul is sent far away from peace, I have no more memory of good.

  • Job 19:11-13
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    78%

    11His wrath is burning against me, and I am to him as one of his haters.

    12His armies come on together, they make their road high against me, and put up their tents round mine.

    13He has taken my brothers far away from me; they have seen my fate and have become strange to me.

  • Lam 1:13-14
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    78%

    13From on high he has sent fire into my bones, and it has overcome them: his net is stretched out for my feet, I am turned back by him; he has made me waste and feeble all the day.

    14A watch is kept on my sins; they are joined together by his hand, they have come on to my neck; he has made my strength give way: the Lord has given me up into the hands of those against whom I have no power.

  • Job 19:8-9
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    8My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark.

    9He has put off my glory from me, and taken the crown from my head.

  • Ps 143:3-4
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    3The evil man has gone after my soul; my life is crushed down to the earth: he has put me in the dark, like those who have long been dead.

    4Because of this my spirit is overcome; and my heart is full of fear.

  • Job 16:7-10
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    7But now he has overcome me with weariness and fear, and I am in the grip of all my trouble.

    8It has come up as a witness against me, and the wasting of my flesh makes answer to my face.

    9I am broken by his wrath, and his hate has gone after me; he has made his teeth sharp against me: my haters are looking on me with cruel eyes;

    10Their mouths are open wide against me; the blows of his bitter words are falling on my face; all of them come together in a mass against me.

  • Lam 3:53
    76%

    53They have put an end to my life in the prison, stoning me with stones.

  • Job 33:10-11
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    75%

    10See, he is looking for something against me; in his eyes I am as one of his haters;

    11He puts chains on my feet; he is watching all my ways.

  • Job 9:18
    75%

    18He would not let me take my breath, but I would be full of bitter grief.

  • Job 17:6
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    6He has made me a word of shame to the peoples; I have become a mark for their sport.

  • Ps 109:3
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    3Words of hate are round about me; they have made war against me without cause.

  • Lam 3:19
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    19Keep in mind my trouble and my wandering, the bitter root and the poison.

  • Ps 22:16
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    16Dogs have come round me: I am shut in by the band of evil-doers; they made wounds in my hands and feet.

  • Ps 55:3-4
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    3I am troubled because of the voice of the cruel ones, because of the loud cry of the evil-doers; for they put a weight of evil on me, and they are cruel in their hate for me.

    4My heart is deeply wounded, and the fear of death has come on me.

  • Ps 31:10
    74%

    10My life goes on in sorrow, and my years in weeping; my strength is almost gone because of my sin, and my bones are wasted away.

  • Ps 35:15
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    15But they took pleasure in my trouble, and came together, yes, low persons came together against me without my knowledge; they never came to an end of wounding me.

  • Ps 129:3
    74%

    3The ploughmen were ploughing on my back; long were the wounds they made.

  • Job 19:6
    73%

    6Be certain that it is God who has done me wrong, and has taken me in his net.

  • Lam 1:21
    73%

    21Give ear to the voice of my grief; I have no comforter; all my haters have news of my troubles, they are glad because you have done it: let the day of fate come when they will be like me.

  • Job 30:16
    73%

    16But now my soul is turned to water in me, days of trouble overtake me:

  • Ps 88:17
    73%

    17They are round me all the day like water; they have made a circle about me.

  • Job 30:11
    73%

    11For he has made loose the cord of my bow, and put me to shame; he has sent down my flag to the earth before me.

  • Job 30:13
    73%

    13They have made waste my roads, with a view to my destruction; his bowmen come round about me;

  • Job 30:18
    73%

    18With great force he takes a grip of my clothing, pulling me by the neck of my coat.

  • Ps 18:5
    73%

    5The cords of hell were round me: the nets of death came on me.