Lamentations 3:5
He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
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Referenced Verses
- Lam 3:19 : 19 Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
- Jer 23:15 : 15 Therefore thus saith the LORD 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 profaneness gone forth into all the land.
- Job 19:8 : 8 He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
- Ps 69:21 : 21 They gave me also gall for my meat; 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 defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
- Jer 9:15 : 15 Therefore thus saith the LORD 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 hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy. 8 Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer. 9 He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
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- Lam 3:2-43 verses83%
2 He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
3 Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.
4 My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
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6 He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.
7 He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
- Lam 3:9-135 verses81%
9 He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
10 He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.
11 He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
12 He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
13 He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.
- Job 16:12-143 verses80%
12 I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.
13 His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.
14 He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.
- Lam 3:15-173 verses79%
15 He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
16 He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
17 And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
- Job 19:11-133 verses78%
11 He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.
12 His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.
13 He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.
- Lam 1:13-142 verses78%
13 From above 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.
14 The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, and come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall, the Lord hath delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up.
- Job 19:8-92 verses77%
8 He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
9 He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
- Ps 143:3-42 verses76%
3 For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.
4 Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.
- Job 16:7-104 verses76%
7 But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
8 And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.
9 He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
10 They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.
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53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
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10 Behold, he findeth occasions against me, he counteth me for his enemy,
11 He putteth my feet in the stocks, he marketh all my paths.
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18 He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.
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6 He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
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3 They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.
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19 Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
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16 For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
- Ps 55:3-42 verses74%
3 Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.
4 My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
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10 For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
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15 But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:
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3 The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.
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6 Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.
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21 They 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 called, and they shall be like unto me.
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16 And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
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17 They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.
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11 Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.
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13 They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
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18 By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
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5 The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.