Lamentations 3:5 — Compare Translations
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English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young
He hath built up against me, And setteth round poverty and weariness.
English ASV
He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
English Amplified
He has built up [siege mounds] against me and surrounded me with bitterness, tribulation, and anguish.
English Amplified Classic Bible 1987
He has built up [siege mounds] against me and surrounded me with bitterness, tribulation, and anguish.
English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025
He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible
He has laid siege against me, encircling me with bitterness and hardship.
English Darby 1890 : Public Domain
He hath built against me, and encompassed [me] with gall and toil.
English EASY 2024
He has attacked me from every side, so that I have pain and trouble.
English ERV 2006 - Only For Website
He built up bitterness and trouble against me. He surrounded me with bitterness and trouble.
English ESV 2016 == The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles
he has besieged and enveloped me with bitterness and tribulation;
English GNT (Good News Translation)
He has shut me in a prison of misery and anguish.
English God's Word - GW 1995
He has attacked me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website
He has laid siege against me, encircling me with bitterness and hardship.
English KJV 1611
He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
English LSB
He has besieged and encompassed me with gall and hardship.
English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)
He has besieged and enveloped me with gall and travail.
English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)
He has besieged and encompassed me with bitterness and hardship.
English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website
He has beset me round about with poverty and weariness;
English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)
He has besieged and surrounded me with bitter hardship.
English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website
He has surrounded me and attacked me. He has made me suffer bitterly. He has made things hard for me.
English NIV
He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
English NKJ 1982
He has besieged me And surrounded me with bitterness and woe.
English NLT
He has attacked me and surrounded me with anguish and distress.
English NRSV 1989 - Only for website
he has besieged and enveloped me with bitterness and tribulation;
English Passion Translation Bible 2020
He has besieged and encircled me with a wall of hardship and bitterness.
English RSV (Revised Standard Version)
he has beseiged and enveloped me with bitterness and tribulation;
English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)
He has built forts against me and surrounded me with anguish and distress.
English Tyndale 1537
He hath builded round about me, and closed me in with gall and travail.