Lamentations 3:5

He builded in my compass, and he compassed me with gall and travail. (He built all around me, yea, he surrounded me with gall and tribulation.)

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In The King James Version

He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.

In Context

4He made eld my skin, and my flesh; he all-brake my bones. (He made old, or wasted, my skin, and my flesh; he broke all my bones.)

6He setted me in dark places, as everlasting dead men. (He put me in dark places, like the everlasting dead.)

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Cross References

Psalms 69:21And they gave gall into my meat; and in my thirst they gave to me drink with vinegar. (And they gave me gall for my food; and for my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.)

Jeremiah 9:15therefore the Lord of hosts, God of Israel, saith these things, Lo! I shall feed this people with wormwood, and I shall give to them (to) drink the water of gall (or and I shall give them the water of gall to drink).

Lamentations 3:7He builded about against me, (so) that I go not out; he aggrieved my gyves (or he made my chains heavy).

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 →

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