Lamentations 3:5
He hath built around me, and encompassed me with poison and hardship.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
In Context
4He hath caused my flesh and my skin to wear out, he hath broken my bones.
6In dark places hath he set me to dwell, like the dead of olden times.
Cross References
Psalms 69:21(69:22) And they put into my food gall; and in my thirst they give me vinegar to drink.
Jeremiah 9:15(9:14) Therefore thus hath said the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will feed them—this people, with wormwood, and give them poison-water to drink.
Lamentations 3:7He hath placed a fence round about me, that I cannot get out; he hath made heavy my chain.
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 →