Lamentations 3:5

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Lam 3:19 : 19 Remember my affliction and my wandering—the bitterness and the gall.
  • Jer 23:15 : 15 Therefore, this is what the LORD of Hosts says concerning the prophets: Behold, I will make them eat bitter wormwood and drink poisoned water, because from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has spread throughout the land.
  • Job 19:8 : 8 He has blocked my path so I cannot pass; He has shrouded my ways with darkness.
  • Ps 69:21 : 21 Reproach has broken my heart, and I am in despair. I looked for sympathy, but there was none; for comforters, but I found no one.
  • Jer 8:14 : 14 Why are we sitting here? Gather together, let us flee to the fortified cities and perish there! For the LORD our God has doomed us, giving us poisonous water to drink because we have sinned against him.
  • Jer 9:15 : 15 'I will scatter them among nations that neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will send the sword after them until I have finished them off.'
  • Lam 3:7-9 : 7 He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed down my chains. 8 Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer. 9 He has blocked my ways with cut stone; He has made my paths crooked.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lam 3:2-4
    3 verses
    83%

    2 He has driven me away and brought me into darkness, not into light.

    3 Surely against me He turns His hand again and again, all day long.

    4 He has worn away my flesh and my skin; He has broken my bones.

  • Lam 3:6-7
    2 verses
    82%

    6 He has made me dwell in dark places, like those long dead.

    7 He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed down my chains.

  • Lam 3:9-13
    5 verses
    81%

    9 He has blocked my ways with cut stone; He has made my paths crooked.

    10 He is like a bear lying in wait for me, a lion in hiding.

    11 He has turned aside my ways and torn me to pieces; He has made me desolate.

    12 He has bent His bow and made me the target for His arrows.

    13 He has pierced my inward parts with the arrows from His quiver.

  • Job 16:12-14
    3 verses
    80%

    12 I was at ease, but he shattered me; he seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has made me his target.

    13 His archers surround me and pierce my kidneys without mercy; he pours my gall on the ground.

    14 He breaks me with breach upon breach; he rushes at me like a warrior.

  • Lam 3:15-17
    3 verses
    79%

    15 He has filled me with bitterness; He has made me drink wormwood.

    16 He has broken my teeth with gravel; He has made me cower in ashes.

    17 My soul has been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what happiness is.

  • Job 19:11-13
    3 verses
    78%

    11 His anger burns against me, and He counts me as one of His enemies.

    12 His troops assemble together; they raise a siege against me and encamp around my dwelling.

    13 He has driven my brothers far from me, and my acquaintances have turned against me.

  • Lam 1:13-14
    2 verses
    78%

    13 From on high he sent fire; it burns in my bones. He spread a net for my feet and turned me back. He made me desolate, faint all the day long.

    14 My transgressions were bound into a yoke; by his hands they were fastened together. They were laid on my neck; he has made my strength fail. The Lord has given me into the hands of those I cannot withstand.

  • Job 19:8-9
    2 verses
    77%

    8 He has blocked my path so I cannot pass; He has shrouded my ways with darkness.

    9 He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head.

  • Ps 143:3-4
    2 verses
    76%

    3 For the enemy has pursued me, crushing my life to the ground and making me dwell in darkness, like those long dead.

    4 My spirit is overwhelmed within me; my heart is appalled inside me.

  • Job 16:7-10
    4 verses
    76%

    7 Surely now, God has worn me out; you have devastated my entire household.

    8 You have bound me up as a witness; my gauntness rises up and testifies against me.

    9 His anger tears at me, and he hates me; he gnashes his teeth at me. My adversary sharpens his eyes against me.

    10 They gape at me with their mouths; they strike my cheeks in scorn and together they conspire against me.

  • Lam 3:53
    76%

    53 They threw me alive into a pit and cast a stone upon me.

  • Job 33:10-11
    2 verses
    75%

    10 But look, He finds faults against me; He considers me His enemy.

    11 He puts my feet in the stocks; He watches all my paths.

  • Job 9:18
    75%

    18 He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness.

  • Job 17:6
    75%

    6 He has made me a byword among the peoples, and I have become one at whom they spit.

  • Ps 109:3
    75%

    3 They surrounded me with words of hatred and fought against me without cause.

  • Lam 3:19
    75%

    19 Remember my affliction and my wandering—the bitterness and the gall.

  • Ps 22:16
    74%

    16 My strength is dried up like a broken piece of pottery, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth; you lay me in the dust of death.

  • Ps 55:3-4
    2 verses
    74%

    3 Pay attention to me and answer me. My thoughts are restless, and I am distraught.

    4 From the voice of the enemy, and from the oppression of the wicked—for they bring down trouble on me and in their anger they hate me.

  • Ps 31:10
    74%

    10 Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am in distress. My eyes grow weak with sorrow, as do my soul and my body.

  • Ps 35:15
    74%

    15 But when I stumbled, they rejoiced and gathered together; attackers I did not know came against me, ripping at me without ceasing.

  • Ps 129:3
    74%

    3 The plowers plowed upon my back; they made their furrows long.

  • Job 19:6
    73%

    6 know then that God has wronged me and surrounded me with His net.

  • Lam 1:21
    73%

    21 People have heard my groaning, but there is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that you have done it. Bring the day you have announced, so they may become like me.

  • Job 30:16
    73%

    16 And now my soul is poured out within me; days of suffering seize hold of me.

  • Ps 88:17
    73%

    17 Your wrath has swept over me; your terrors have destroyed me.

  • Job 30:11
    73%

    11 Because God has loosened my cord and afflicted me, they throw off all restraint in my presence.

  • Job 30:13
    73%

    13 They tear up my path; they help advance my ruin, even though no one comes to assist them.

  • Job 30:18
    73%

    18 With great force my garment is disfigured; it binds me like the collar of my tunic.

  • Ps 18:5
    73%

    5 The cords of death surrounded me, and the torrents of destruction overwhelmed me.