Lamentations 3:5

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

He hath built up against me, And setteth round poverty and weariness.

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Referenced Verses

  • Lam 3:19 : 19 Remember my affliction and my mourning, Wormwood and gall!
  • Jer 23:15 : 15 Therefore, thus said Jehovah of Hosts, concerning the prophets: Lo, I am causing them to eat wormwood, And have caused them to drink water of gall, For, from prophets of Jerusalem Hath profanity gone forth to all the land.
  • Job 19:8 : 8 My way He hedged up, and I pass not over, And on my paths darkness He placeth.
  • Ps 69:21 : 21 And they give for my food gall, And for my thirst cause me to drink vinegar.
  • Jer 8:14 : 14 Wherefore are we sitting still? Be gathered, and we go in to the fenced cities, And we are silent there, For Jehovah our God hath made us silent, Yea, He causeth us to drink water of gall, For we have sinned against Jehovah.
  • Jer 9:15 : 15 Therefore, thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel: Lo, I am causing them -- this people -- to eat wormwood, And I have caused them to drink water of gall,
  • Lam 3:7-9 : 7 He hath hedged me about, and I go not out, He hath made heavy my fetter. 8 Also when I call and cry out, He hath shut out my prayer. 9 He hath hedged my ways with hewn work, My paths He hath made crooked.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lam 3:2-4
    3 verses
    83%

    2Me He hath led, and causeth to go `in' darkness, and without light.

    3Surely against me He turneth back, He turneth His hand all the day.

    4He hath worn out my flesh and my skin. He hath broken my bones.

  • Lam 3:6-7
    2 verses
    82%

    6In dark places He hath caused me to dwell, As the dead of old.

    7He hath hedged me about, and I go not out, He hath made heavy my fetter.

  • Lam 3:9-13
    5 verses
    81%

    9He hath hedged my ways with hewn work, My paths He hath made crooked.

    10A bear lying in wait He `is' to me, A lion in secret hiding-places.

    11My ways He is turning aside, and He pulleth me in pieces, He hath made me a desolation.

    12He hath trodden His bow, And setteth me up as a mark for an arrow.

    13He hath caused to enter into my reins The sons of His quiver.

  • Job 16:12-14
    3 verses
    80%

    12At ease I have been, and he breaketh me, And he hath laid hold on my neck, And he breaketh me in pieces, And he raiseth me to him for a mark.

    13Go round against me do his archers. He splitteth my reins, and spareth not, He poureth out to the earth my gall.

    14He breaketh me -- breach upon breach, He runneth upon me as a mighty one.

  • Lam 3:15-17
    3 verses
    79%

    15He hath filled me with bitter things, He hath filled me `with' wormwood.

    16And He breaketh with gravel my teeth, He hath covered me with ashes.

    17And Thou castest off from peace my soul, I have forgotten prosperity.

  • Job 19:11-13
    3 verses
    78%

    11And He kindleth against me His anger, And reckoneth me to Him as His adversaries.

    12Come in do His troops together, And they raise up against me their way, And encamp round about my tent.

    13My brethren from me He hath put far off, And mine acquaintances surely Have been estranged from me.

  • Lam 1:13-14
    2 verses
    78%

    13From above He hath sent fire into my bone, And it subdueth it, He hath spread a net for my feet, He hath turned me backward, He hath made me desolate -- all the day sick.

    14Bound hath been the yoke of my transgressions by His hand, They are wrapped together, They have gone up on my neck, He hath caused my power to stumble, The Lord hath given me into hands, I am not able to rise.

  • Job 19:8-9
    2 verses
    77%

    8My way He hedged up, and I pass not over, And on my paths darkness He placeth.

    9Mine honour from off me He hath stripped, And He turneth the crown from my head.

  • Ps 143:3-4
    2 verses
    76%

    3For an enemy hath pursued my soul, He hath bruised to the earth my life, He hath caused me to dwell in dark places, As the dead of old.

    4And my spirit in me is become feeble, Within me is my heart become desolate.

  • Job 16:7-10
    4 verses
    76%

    7Only, now, it hath wearied me; Thou hast desolated all my company,

    8And Thou dost loathe me, For a witness it hath been, And rise up against me doth my failure, In my face it testifieth.

    9His anger hath torn, and he hateth me, He hath gnashed at me with his teeth, My adversary sharpeneth his eyes for me.

    10They have gaped on me with their mouth, In reproach they have smitten my cheeks, Together against me they set themselves.

  • Lam 3:53
    76%

    53They have cut off in a pit my life, And they cast a stone against me.

  • Job 33:10-11
    2 verses
    75%

    10Lo, occasions against me He doth find, He doth reckon me for an enemy to Him,

    11He doth put in the stocks my feet, He doth watch all my paths.'

  • Job 9:18
    75%

    18He permitteth me not to refresh my spirit, But filleth me with bitter things.

  • Job 17:6
    75%

    6And he set me up for a proverb of the peoples, And a wonder before them I am.

  • Ps 109:3
    75%

    3They have compassed me about, And they fight me without cause.

  • Lam 3:19
    75%

    19Remember my affliction and my mourning, Wormwood and gall!

  • Ps 22:16
    74%

    16And to the dust of death thou appointest me, For surrounded me have dogs, A company of evil doers have compassed me, Piercing my hands and my feet.

  • Ps 55:3-4
    2 verses
    74%

    3Because of the voice of an enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked, For they cause sorrow to move against me, And in anger they hate me.

    4My heart is pained within me, And terrors of death have fallen on me.

  • Ps 31:10
    74%

    10For my life hath been consumed in sorrow And my years in sighing. Feeble because of mine iniquity hath been my strength, And my bones have become old.

  • Ps 35:15
    74%

    15And -- in my halting they have rejoiced, And have been gathered together, Gathered against me were the smiters, And I have not known, They have rent, and they have not ceased;

  • Ps 129:3
    74%

    3Over my back have ploughers ploughed, They have made long their furrows.

  • Job 19:6
    73%

    6Know now, that God turned me upside down, And His net against me hath set round,

  • Lam 1:21
    73%

    21They have heard that I have sighed, There is no comforter for me, All my enemies have heard of my calamity, They have rejoiced that Thou hast done `it', Thou hast brought in the day Thou hast called, And they are like to me.

  • Job 30:16
    73%

    16And now, in me my soul poureth itself out, Seize me do days of affliction.

  • Ps 88:17
    73%

    17They have surrounded me as waters all the day, They have gone round against me together,

  • Job 30:11
    73%

    11Because His cord He loosed and afflicteth me, And the bridle from before me, They have cast away.

  • Job 30:13
    73%

    13They have broken down my path, By my calamity they profit, `He hath no helper.'

  • Job 30:18
    73%

    18By the abundance of power, Is my clothing changed, As the mouth of my coat it doth gird me.

  • Ps 18:5
    73%

    5Cords of Sheol have surrounded me, Before me have been snares of death.