Verse 5

He has besieged and surrounded me with bitter hardship.

Referenced Verses

• Lam 3:19 : 19 ז(Zayin) Remember my impoverished and homeless condition, which is a bitter poison.
• Jer 23:15 : 15 So then I, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, have something to say concerning the prophets of Jerusalem:‘I will make these prophets eat the bitter food of suffering and drink the poison water of judgment. For the prophets of Jerusalem are the reason that ungodliness has spread throughout the land.’”
• Job 19:8 : 8 He has blocked my way so I cannot pass, and has set darkness over my paths.
• Ps 69:21 : 21 They put bitter poison into my food, and to quench my thirst they give me vinegar to drink.
• Jer 8:14 : 14 Jeremiah Laments over the Coming Destruction The people say,“Why are we just sitting here? Let us gather together inside the fortified cities. Let us at least die there fighting, since the LORD our God has condemned us to die. He has condemned us to drink the poison waters of judgment because we have sinned against him.
• Jer 9:15 : 15 So then, listen to what I, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, say.‘I will make these people eat the bitter food of suffering and drink the poison water of judgment.
• Lam 3:7-9 : 7 ג(Gimel) He has walled me in so that I cannot get out; he has weighted me down with heavy prison chains. 8 Also, when I cry out desperately for help, he has shut out my prayer. 9 He has blocked every road I take with a wall of hewn stones; he has made every path impassable.