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%

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

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

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

  • Lam 3:6-7
    2 verses
    82%

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

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

  • Lam 3:9-13
    5 verses
    81%

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

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

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

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

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

  • Job 16:12-14
    3 verses
    80%

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

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

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

  • Lam 3:15-17
    3 verses
    79%

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

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

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

  • Job 19:11-13
    3 verses
    78%

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

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

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

  • Lam 1:13-14
    2 verses
    78%

    13From 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.

    14My 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%

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

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

  • Ps 143:3-4
    2 verses
    76%

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

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

  • Job 16:7-10
    4 verses
    76%

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

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

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

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

  • Lam 3:53
    76%

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

  • Job 33:10-11
    2 verses
    75%

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

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

  • Job 9:18
    75%

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

  • Job 17:6
    75%

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

  • Ps 109:3
    75%

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

  • Lam 3:19
    75%

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

  • Ps 22:16
    74%

    16My 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%

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

    4From 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%

    10Be 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%

    15But 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%

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

  • Job 19:6
    73%

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

  • Lam 1:21
    73%

    21People 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%

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

  • Ps 88:17
    73%

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

  • Job 30:11
    73%

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

  • Job 30:13
    73%

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

  • Job 30:18
    73%

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

  • Ps 18:5
    73%

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