Lectionary Calendar
Saturday, July 12th, 2025
the Week of Proper 9 / Ordinary 14
the Week of Proper 9 / Ordinary 14
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New Living Translation
Lamentations 3:5
He has besieged and surrounded me with anguish and distress.
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Christian Standard Bible®
He has laid siege against me,encircling me with bitterness and hardship.
He has laid siege against me,encircling me with bitterness and hardship.
Hebrew Names Version
He has built against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
He has built against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
King James Version
He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
English Standard Version
he has besieged and enveloped me with bitterness and tribulation;
he has besieged and enveloped me with bitterness and tribulation;
New American Standard Bible
He has besieged and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
He has besieged and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
New Century Version
He surrounded me with sadness and attacked me with grief.
He surrounded me with sadness and attacked me with grief.
Amplified Bible
He has besieged and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
He has besieged and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
World English Bible
He has built against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
He has built against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
Geneva Bible (1587)
He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall, and labour.
He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall, and labour.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
He has besieged and encompassed me with bitterness and hardship.
He has besieged and encompassed me with bitterness and hardship.
Legacy Standard Bible
He has besieged and encompassed me with gall and hardship.
He has besieged and encompassed me with gall and hardship.
Berean Standard Bible
He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
Contemporary English Version
He attacked and surrounded me with hardships and trouble;
He attacked and surrounded me with hardships and trouble;
Complete Jewish Bible
He has besieged and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
He has besieged and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
Darby Translation
He hath built against me, and encompassed [me] with gall and toil.
He hath built against me, and encompassed [me] with gall and toil.
Easy-to-Read Version
He built up bitterness and trouble against me. He surrounded me with bitterness and trouble.
He built up bitterness and trouble against me. He surrounded me with bitterness and trouble.
George Lamsa Translation
He has built ramparts against me, and compassed me with bitterness and travail.
He has built ramparts against me, and compassed me with bitterness and travail.
Good News Translation
He has shut me in a prison of misery and anguish.
He has shut me in a prison of misery and anguish.
Lexham English Bible
He has besieged and engulfed me with bitterness and hardship.
He has besieged and engulfed me with bitterness and hardship.
Literal Translation
He built against me and has put around me bitterness and hardship.
He built against me and has put around me bitterness and hardship.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
He hath buylded rounde aboute me, & closed me in with gall and trauayle.
He hath buylded rounde aboute me, & closed me in with gall and trauayle.
American Standard Version
He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
Bible in Basic English
He has put up a wall against me, shutting me in with bitter sorrow.
He has put up a wall against me, shutting me in with bitter sorrow.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
King James Version (1611)
He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and trauel.
He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and trauel.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
He hath buylded rounde about me, and closed me in with gall and trauaile.
He hath buylded rounde about me, and closed me in with gall and trauaile.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
BETH. He has built against me, and compassed my head, and brought travail upon me.
BETH. He has built against me, and compassed my head, and brought travail upon me.
English Revised Version
He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Beth. He bildid in my cumpas, and he cumpasside me with galle and trauel.
Beth. He bildid in my cumpas, and he cumpasside me with galle and trauel.
Update Bible Version
He has built against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
He has built against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
Webster's Bible Translation
He hath built against me, and compassed [me] with gall and labor.
He hath built against me, and compassed [me] with gall and labor.
New English Translation
He has besieged and surrounded me with bitter hardship.
He has besieged and surrounded me with bitter hardship.
New King James Version
He has besieged me And surrounded me with bitterness and woe.
He has besieged me And surrounded me with bitterness and woe.
New Life Bible
He has shut me in with trouble and suffering.
He has shut me in with trouble and suffering.
New Revised Standard
he has besieged and enveloped me with bitterness and tribulation;
he has besieged and enveloped me with bitterness and tribulation;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
He hath built up against me, and carried round me, fortifications and a trench;
He hath built up against me, and carried round me, fortifications and a trench;
Douay-Rheims Bible
Beth. He hath built round about me, and he hath compassed me with gall, and labour.
Beth. He hath built round about me, and he hath compassed me with gall, and labour.
Revised Standard Version
he has besieged and enveloped me with bitterness and tribulation;
he has besieged and enveloped me with bitterness and tribulation;
Young's Literal Translation
He hath built up against me, And setteth round poverty and weariness.
He hath built up against me, And setteth round poverty and weariness.
Contextual Overview
1 I am the one who has seen the afflictions that come from the rod of the Lord 's anger. 2 He has led me into darkness, shutting out all light. 3 He has turned his hand against me again and again, all day long. 4 He has made my skin and flesh grow old. He has broken my bones. 5 He has besieged and surrounded me with anguish and distress. 6 He has buried me in a dark place, like those long dead. 7 He has walled me in, and I cannot escape. He has bound me in heavy chains. 8 And though I cry and shout, he has shut out my prayers. 9 He has blocked my way with a high stone wall; he has made my road crooked. 10 He has hidden like a bear or a lion, waiting to attack me.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
builded: Lamentations 3:7-9, Job 19:8
gall: Lamentations 3:19, Psalms 69:21, Jeremiah 8:14, Jeremiah 9:15, Jeremiah 23:15
Reciprocal: Psalms 88:17 - They Acts 8:23 - the gall Revelation 8:11 - Wormwood
Cross-References
Genesis 2:17
except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If you eat its fruit, you are sure to die."
except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If you eat its fruit, you are sure to die."
Genesis 3:2
"Of course we may eat fruit from the trees in the garden," the woman replied.
"Of course we may eat fruit from the trees in the garden," the woman replied.
Genesis 3:3
"It's only the fruit from the tree in the middle of the garden that we are not allowed to eat. God said, ‘You must not eat it or even touch it; if you do, you will die.'"
"It's only the fruit from the tree in the middle of the garden that we are not allowed to eat. God said, ‘You must not eat it or even touch it; if you do, you will die.'"
Genesis 3:6
The woman was convinced. She saw that the tree was beautiful and its fruit looked delicious, and she wanted the wisdom it would give her. So she took some of the fruit and ate it. Then she gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it, too.
The woman was convinced. She saw that the tree was beautiful and its fruit looked delicious, and she wanted the wisdom it would give her. So she took some of the fruit and ate it. Then she gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it, too.
Genesis 3:7
At that moment their eyes were opened, and they suddenly felt shame at their nakedness. So they sewed fig leaves together to cover themselves.
At that moment their eyes were opened, and they suddenly felt shame at their nakedness. So they sewed fig leaves together to cover themselves.
Genesis 3:10
He replied, "I heard you walking in the garden, so I hid. I was afraid because I was naked."
He replied, "I heard you walking in the garden, so I hid. I was afraid because I was naked."
Genesis 3:13
Then the Lord God asked the woman, "What have you done?" "The serpent deceived me," she replied. "That's why I ate it."
Then the Lord God asked the woman, "What have you done?" "The serpent deceived me," she replied. "That's why I ate it."
Genesis 3:14
Then the Lord God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, you are cursed more than all animals, domestic and wild. You will crawl on your belly, groveling in the dust as long as you live.
Then the Lord God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, you are cursed more than all animals, domestic and wild. You will crawl on your belly, groveling in the dust as long as you live.
Genesis 3:15
And I will cause hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will strike your head, and you will strike his heel."
And I will cause hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will strike your head, and you will strike his heel."
Genesis 3:22
Then the Lord God said, "Look, the human beings have become like us, knowing both good and evil. What if they reach out, take fruit from the tree of life, and eat it? Then they will live forever!"
Then the Lord God said, "Look, the human beings have become like us, knowing both good and evil. What if they reach out, take fruit from the tree of life, and eat it? Then they will live forever!"
Gill's Notes on the Bible
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" e; 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; περιλυπος, 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.''
e ותלאה "et fatigatione", Montanus, Vatablus, Castalio.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
He hath builded ... - The metaphor is taken from the operations in a siege.
Gall and travail - Or “travail;” i. e. bitterness and weariness (through toil).
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Lamentations 3:5. He hath builded against me — Perhaps there is a reference here to the mounds and ramparts raised by the Chaldeans in order to take the city.
