Lamentations 3:5

5 He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

Lamentations 3:5 in Other Translations

5 He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.

5 he has besieged and enveloped me with bitterness and tribulation;

5 He has besieged and surrounded me with anguish and distress.

5 He hemmed me in, ganged up on me, poured on the trouble and hard times.

5 He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.

5 He has attacked me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

5 He has laid siege against me, encircling me with bitterness and hardship.

5 He has surrounded me and attacked me. He has made me suffer bitterly. He has made things hard for me.

Lamentations 3:5 Meaning and Commentary

Lamentations 3:5

He hath builded against me
Fortresses, as the Targum adds; as when forts and batteries were raised by the Chaldeans against the city of Jerusalem, in which the prophet was: and compassed [me] with gall and travail;
or "weariness" ^F5; the same with gall and wormwood, ( Lamentations 3:19 ) ; as Jarchi observes. The sense is, he was surrounded with sorrow, affliction, and misery, which were as disagreeable as gall; or like poison that drank up his spirits, and made him weary of his life. Thus our Lord was exceeding sorrowful, even unto death; (perilupov) , encompassed with sorrows, ( Matthew 26:38 ) . The Targum is,

``he hath surrounded the city, and rooted up the heads of the people, and caused them to fail.''

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FOOTNOTES:

F5 (haltw) "et fatigatione", Montanus, Vatablus, Castalio.

Lamentations 3:5 In-Context

3 indeed, he has turned his hand against me again and again, all day long.

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

5 He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

6 He has made me dwell in darkness like those long dead.

7 He has walled me in so I cannot escape; he has weighed me down with chains.

Cross References

• 1. ver 19
• 2. Jeremiah 23:15