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Lamentations 3:5

NETBible	He has besieged¹ and surrounded² me with bitter hardship.³
NIV © biblegateway Lam 3:5	He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
NASB © biblegateway Lam 3:5	He has besieged and encompassed me with bitterness and hardship.
NLT © biblegateway Lam 3:5	He has attacked me and surrounded me with anguish and distress.
MSG © biblegateway Lam 3:5	He hemmed me in, ganged up on me, poured on the trouble and hard times.
BBE © SABDAweb Lam 3:5	He has put up a wall against me, shutting me in with bitter sorrow.
NRSV © bibleoremus Lam 3:5	he has besieged and enveloped me with bitterness and tribulation;
NKJV © biblegateway Lam 3:5	He has besieged me And surrounded me with bitterness and woe.
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KJV	He hath builded against <01129> (8804) me, and compassed <05362> (8686) [me] with gall <07219> and travail <08513>_.
NASB © biblegateway Lam 3:5	He has besieged <01129> <5921> and encompassed <05362> me with bitterness <07219> and hardship <08513> .
LXXM	anwkodomhsen <456> V-AAI-3S kat <2596> PREP emou <1473> P-GS kai <2532> CONJ ekuklwsen <2944> V-AAI-3S kefalhn <2776> N-ASF mou <1473> P-GS kai <2532> CONJ emocyhsen {V-AAI-3S}
NET [draft] ITL	He has besieged <05921> <01129> and surrounded <05362> me with bitter <07219> hardship <08513> .
HEBREW	haltw <08513> sar <07219> Pqyw <05362> yle <05921> hnb (3:5) <01129>

NETBible

He has besieged¹ and surrounded² me with bitter hardship.³

NET Notes

¹tn Heb “he has built against me.” The verb בָּנָה (banah, “to build”) followed by the preposition עַל (’al, “against”) often refers to the action of building siege-works against a city, that is, to besiege a city (e.g., Deut 20:2; 2 Kgs 25:1; Eccl 9:14; Jer 52:4; Ezek 4:2; 17:17; 21:27). Normally, an explicit accusative direct object is used (e.g., מָצוֹד [matsor] or מָצוֹדִים [matsorim]); however, here, the expression is used absolutely without an explicit accusative [BDB 124 s.v. בָּנָה 1a.η]).

²tn The verb נָקַף (naqaf, “to surround”) refers to the military action of an army surrounding a besieged city by placing army encampments all around the city, to prevent anyone in the city from escaping (2 Kgs 6:14; 11:8; Pss 17:9; 88:18; Job 19:6).

³tn Heb “with bitterness and hardship.” The nouns רֹאשׁ וּתְלָאָה (ro’sh utÿla’ah, lit. “bitterness and hardship”) function as adverbial accusatives of manner: “with bitterness and hardship.” The two nouns רֹאשׁ וּתְלָאָה (ro’sh utÿla’ah, “bitterness and hardship”) form a nominal hendiadys: the second retains its full nominal sense, while the first functions adverbially: “bitter hardship.” The noun II רֹאשׁ (ro’sh, “bitterness”) should not be confused with the common homonymic root I רֹאשׁ (ro’sh, “head”). The noun תְּלָאָה (tÿla’ah, “hardship”) is used elsewhere in reference to the distress of Israel in Egypt (Num 20:14), in the wilderness (Exod 18:8), and in exile (Neh 9:32).