3:5a He has besieged me

He has built forts against me (New Living Translation (2004))
-or-
He built things to stop me on every side.

3:5b and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

and surrounded me with bitter pain and suffering.
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He put distress and bitter poison all around me.

3:5a-b (combined)

He has shut me in a prison of misery and anguish. (GNTD)
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All around me was suffering and distress. I couldn’t escape.

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