Lamentations 3:5

World English Bible (2000)

He has built against me, and surrounded me with gall and travail.

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Referenced Verses

  • Lam 3:19 : 19 Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
  • Jer 23:15 : 15 Therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies 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 ungodliness gone forth into all the land.
  • Job 19:8 : 8 He has walled up my way so that I can't pass, and has set darkness in my paths.
  • Ps 69:21 : 21 They also gave me gall for my food. 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 fortified cities, and let us be silent there; for Yahweh our God has put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against Yahweh.
  • Jer 9:15 : 15 therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies, 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 walled me about, that I can't go forth; he has made my chain heavy. 8 Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer. 9 He has walled up my ways with cut stone; he has made my paths crooked.

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  • Lam 3:2-4
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    2He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.

    3Surely against me he turns his hand again and again all the day.

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

  • Lam 3:6-7
    2 verses
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    6He has made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.

    7He has walled me about, that I can't go forth; he has made my chain heavy.

  • Lam 3:9-13
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    81%

    9He has walled up my ways with cut stone; he has made my paths crooked.

    10He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.

    11He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he has made me desolate.

    12He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

    13He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my kidneys.

  • Job 16:12-14
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    12I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his target.

    13His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. He pours out my gall on the ground.

    14He breaks me with breach on breach. He runs on me like a giant.

  • Lam 3:15-17
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    15He has filled me with bitterness, he has sated me with wormwood.

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

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

  • Job 19:11-13
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    78%

    11He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me among his adversaries.

    12His troops come on together, build a siege ramp against me, and encamp around my tent.

    13"He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.

  • Lam 1:13-14
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    78%

    13From on high has he 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 knit together, they are come up on my neck; he has made my strength to fail: The Lord has delivered me into their hands, against whom I am not able to stand.

  • Job 19:8-9
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    8He has walled up my way so that I can't pass, and has set darkness in my paths.

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

  • Ps 143:3-4
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    3For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.

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

  • Job 16:7-10
    4 verses
    76%

    7But now, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made desolate all my company.

    8You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me. My leanness rises up against me. It testifies to my face.

    9He has torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me. He has gnashed on me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes on me.

    10They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.

  • Lam 3:53
    76%

    53They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone on me.

  • Job 33:10-11
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    10Behold, he finds occasions against me. He counts me for his enemy.

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

  • Job 9:18
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    18He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness.

  • Job 17:6
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    6"But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.

  • Ps 109:3
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    3They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.

  • Lam 3:19
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    19Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

  • Ps 22:16
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    16For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.

  • Ps 55:3-4
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    3Because of the voice of the enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked. For they bring suffering on me. In anger they hold a grudge against me.

    4My heart is severely pained within me. The terrors of death have fallen on me.

  • Ps 31:10
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    10For my life is spent with sorrow, my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away.

  • Ps 35:15
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    15But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn't know it. They tore at me, and didn't cease.

  • Ps 129:3
    74%

    3The plowers plowed on my back. They made their furrows long.

  • Job 19:6
    73%

    6know now that God has subverted 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 proclaimed, and they shall be like me.

  • Job 30:16
    73%

    16"Now my soul is poured out within me. Days of affliction have taken hold on me.

  • Ps 88:17
    73%

    17They came around me like water all day long. They completely engulfed me.

  • Job 30:11
    73%

    11For he has untied his cord, and afflicted me; and they have thrown off restraint before me.

  • Job 30:13
    73%

    13They mar my path, They set forward my calamity, without anyone's help.

  • Job 30:18
    73%

    18By great force is my garment disfigured. It binds me about as the collar of my coat.

  • Ps 18:5
    73%

    5The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death came on me.