Lamentations 3:5

KJV1611 – Modern English

He has built against me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

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  • Lam 3:19 : 19 Remembering my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
  • Jer 23:15 : 15 Therefore thus says 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 profaneness has gone forth into all the land.
  • Job 19:8 : 8 He has fenced up my way so that I cannot pass, and He has set darkness in my paths.
  • Ps 69:21 : 21 They also gave me 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, let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God has put us to silence, and given us bitter water to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
  • Jer 9:15 : 15 Therefore thus says 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 has hedged me in so I cannot get out; He has made my chain heavy. 8 Even when I cry and shout, He shuts out my prayer. 9 He has enclosed my ways with hewn stone; He has made my paths crooked.

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  • Lam 3:2-4
    3 verses
    83%

    2He has led me and brought me into darkness, but not into light.

    3Surely against me He is turned; He turns His hand against me all day long.

    4My flesh and my skin He has made old; He has broken my bones.

  • Lam 3:6-7
    2 verses
    82%

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

    7He has hedged me in so I cannot get out; He has made my chain heavy.

  • Lam 3:9-13
    5 verses
    81%

    9He has enclosed my ways with hewn stone; He has made my paths crooked.

    10He was to me like a bear lying in wait, and like 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 set me as a target for the arrow.

    13He has caused the arrows of His quiver to pierce my innermost parts.

  • Job 16:12-14
    3 verses
    80%

    12I was at ease, but he has broken me apart; he has also seized me by my neck and shaken me to pieces and set me up as his target.

    13His archers surround me, he cleaves my entrails asunder and does not spare; he pours out my gall upon the ground.

    14He breaks me with breach upon breach; he runs upon me like a giant.

  • Lam 3:15-17
    3 verses
    79%

    15He has filled me with bitterness, He has made me drunk with wormwood.

    16He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones; He has covered me with ashes.

    17You have moved my soul far from peace; I forgot prosperity.

  • Job 19:11-13
    3 verses
    78%

    11He has also kindled His wrath against me and counts me as one of His enemies.

    12His troops come together and raise up their way against me, and encamp around my tent.

    13He has put my brothers far from me, and my acquaintances are truly estranged from me.

  • Lam 1:13-14
    2 verses
    78%

    13From above he has sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them: he has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back: he has made me desolate and faint all the day.

    14The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are woven together, and come upon my neck: he has made my strength to fall, the Lord has delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up.

  • Job 19:8-9
    2 verses
    77%

    8He has fenced up my way so that I cannot pass, and He has set darkness in my paths.

    9He has stripped me of my glory and taken the crown from my head.

  • Ps 143:3-4
    2 verses
    76%

    3For the enemy has persecuted my soul; he has crushed my life to the ground; he has made me dwell in darkness, like those long dead.

    4Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.

  • Job 16:7-10
    4 verses
    76%

    7But now he has made me weary; you have made desolate all my company.

    8You have filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me, and my leanness rising up in me bears witness to my face.

    9He tears me in his wrath, who hates me; he gnashes upon me with his teeth; my enemy sharpens his eyes upon me.

    10They gape upon me with their mouth; they strike me on the cheek reproachfully; they gather themselves together against me.

  • Lam 3:53
    76%

    53They cut off my life in the pit and threw a stone upon me.

  • Job 33:10-11
    2 verses
    75%

    10Behold, He finds occasions against me, He counts me as His enemy;

    11He puts my feet in the stocks, He marks all my paths.

  • Job 9:18
    75%

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

  • Job 17:6
    75%

    6He has made me also a byword of the people; and in the past I was like a tambourine.

  • Ps 109:3
    75%

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

  • Lam 3:19
    75%

    19Remembering my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

  • Ps 22:16
    74%

    16For dogs have surrounded me; the assembly of the wicked have enclosed 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 wrath they hate me.

    4My heart is in anguish within me, and the terrors of death have fallen upon me.

  • Ps 31:10
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    10For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

  • Ps 35:15
    74%

    15But in my adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together; yes, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they tore me, and did not cease:

  • Ps 129:3
    74%

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

  • Job 19:6
    73%

    6Know now that God has overthrown me and has surrounded me with His net.

  • Lam 1:21
    73%

    21They have heard that I sigh: there is none to comfort me: all my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that you have done it: you will bring the day that you have promised, and they shall be like me.

  • Job 30:16
    73%

    16And now my soul is poured out within me; the days of affliction have seized me.

  • Ps 88:17
    73%

    17They came around me daily like water; they have encircled me together.

  • Job 30:11
    73%

    11Because He has loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.

  • Job 30:13
    73%

    13They mar my path, they advance my calamity, they have no helper.

  • Job 30:18
    73%

    18By the great force of my disease my garment is changed: it binds me about like the collar of my coat.

  • Ps 18:5
    73%

    5The sorrows of hell surrounded me: the snares of death confronted me.