Catholic Public Domain Version
"BETH. He has built all around me, and he has encircled me with gall and hardship. "
— Lamentations 3:5, Catholic Public Domain 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. ”
“He has built against me, and surrounded me with gall and travail.”
“He has besieged and surrounded me with bitter hardship.”
“Beth. He hath built round about me, and he hath compassed me with gall, and labour.”
“He has put up a wall against me, shutting me in with bitter sorrow.”
“He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.”
ALEPH. He has driven me and led me into darkness, and not into light.
ALEPH. Against me only, he has turned and turned again his hand, all day long.
BETH. My skin and my flesh, he has made old; he has crushed my bones.
BETH. He has built all around me, and he has encircled me with gall and hardship.
BETH. He has gathered me into darkness, like those who are forever dead.
GHIMEL. He has built against me all around, so that I may not depart. He has increased the burden of my confinement.
GHIMEL. Yet even when I cry out and beg, he excludes my prayer.