Lamentations 3:5

Translations

King James Version (KJV)

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

American King James Version (AKJV)

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

American Standard Version (ASV)

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

Basic English Translation (BBE)

He has put up a wall against me, shutting me in with bitter sorrow.

Webster's Revision

He hath built against me, and compassed me with gall and labor.

World English Bible

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

English Revised Version (ERV)

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

Clarke's Lamentations 3:5 Bible Commentary

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.

Barnes's Lamentations 3:5 Bible Commentary

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).

Wesley's Lamentations 3:5 Bible Commentary

3:5 Builded - He hath built forts and batteries against my walls and houses.