Lamentations 3:5
He hath set up siegeworks against me, 1 and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship. 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
In Context
4My basar and my ohr (skin) hath He made old; 1 He hath broken my atzmot. 1
6He hath set me in dark places, 1 like the mesei olam (long dead). 1
Cross References
Psalms 69:21Reproach hath broken my lev; and I have sickness as unto death; 1 and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; 1 and for menachamim (comforters), but I found none. 1
Jeremiah 9:15I will scatter them also among the Goyim, whom neither they nor their avot have known; and I will send a cherev after them, till I have consumed them. 1
Lamentations 3:7He hath hedged me about, that I cannot escape; 1 He hath made my chain heavy. 1
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 →