Lamentations 3:5
BETH. He has built all around me, and he has encircled me with gall and hardship.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
In Context
4BETH. My skin and my flesh, he has made old; he has crushed my bones.
6BETH. He has gathered me into darkness, like those who are forever dead.
Cross References
Jeremiah 9:15For this reason, thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: “Behold, I will feed this people with absinthe, and I will give them the water of gall to drink.
Lamentations 3:7GHIMEL. He has built against me all around, so that I may not depart. He has increased the burden of my confinement.
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 3:2-21
The Prophet's Personal Affliction. ( b. c. 588.) 1 I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. 2 He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light. 3 Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day. 4 My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones. 5 He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail. 6 He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old. 7 He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath… Read the whole commentary →