Lamentations 3:5
Lamentations · Old Testament · Chapter 3
“He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.”Lamentations 3:5
What Does Lamentations 3:5 Mean?
Lamentations 3:5 is found in the book of Lamentations, chapter 3, verse 5 of the Old Testament. This verse connects to 10 other passages through cross-references, placing it within a rich network of biblical meaning.
Cross-References (10)
These passages are connected to Lamentations 3:5 through shared themes, quotations, or prophetic fulfillment.
Lamentations 3:19“Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.”Jeremiah 23:15“Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land.”Job 19:8“He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.”Psalms 69:21“They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.”Psalms 88:17“They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.”Jeremiah 8:14“Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.”Jeremiah 9:15“Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.”Lamentations 3:7“He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.”Acts 8:23“For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity.”Revelation 8:11“And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.”
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