Lamentations 3:5 Cross References - MSB

⁵ He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

⁸ He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; He has veiled my paths with darkness.

²¹ They poisoned my food with gall and gave me vinegar to quench my thirst.

¹⁴ Why are we just sitting here? Gather together, let us flee to the fortified cities and perish there, for the LORD our God has doomed us. He has given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.

¹⁵ Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I will feed this people wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.

¹⁵ Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says concerning the prophets: “I will feed them wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink, for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has spread throughout the land.”

⁷ He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed me down with chains. ⁸ Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer. ⁹ He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked.

¹⁹ Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and the gall.