NET Bible
"He has besieged and surrounded me with bitter hardship."
— Lamentations 3:5, NET Bible
“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.”
“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.”
He drove me into captivity and made me walk in darkness and not light.
He repeatedly attacks me, he turns his hand against me all day long.
ב(Bet) He has made my mortal skin waste away; he has broken my bones.
He has besieged and surrounded me with bitter hardship.
He has made me reside in deepest darkness like those who died long ago.
ג(Gimel) He has walled me in so that I cannot get out; he has weighted me down with heavy prison chains.
Also, when I cry out desperately for help, he has shut out my prayer.