Lamentations 3:5 meaning and explanation
He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
Lamentations 3:5, Berean Standard Bible
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The speaker is an unnamed man, likely a survivor of Jerusalem's destruction, voicing the community's grief in the first of the chapter's three voices. He describes God as an attacker, not a distant observer: the Hebrew verb for besieging is military language, picturing an army encircling a city.
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