Lamentations 3:5
He has built up against me, || And sets around poverty and weariness.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
In Context
4He has worn out my flesh and my skin. He has broken my bones.
6In dark places He has caused me to dwell, || As the dead of old.
Cross References
Psalms 69:21And they give gall for my food, || And cause me to drink vinegar for my thirst.
Jeremiah 9:15Therefore, thus said YHWH of Hosts, God of Israel: “Behold, I am causing them—this people—to eat wormwood, || And I have caused them to drink water of gall,
Lamentations 3:7He has hedged me in, and I do not go out, || He has 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 →