Lamentations 3:5 · KJV
“He hath builded against me, and compassed {me} with gall and travail.”
— Lamentations 3:5
My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
He hath set me in dark places, as {they that be} dead of old.
Lamentations 3 — Context
Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand {against me} all the day.
4My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
5He hath builded against me, and compassed {me} with gall and travail.
6He hath set me in dark places, as {they that be} dead of old.
7He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
Cross References
Lamentations 3:19
Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. {Remembering: or, Remember}
Jeremiah 23:15
Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land. {profaneness: or, hypocrisy}
Job 19:8
He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
Psalms 69:21
They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
Lamentations 3:7-9
He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
Jeremiah 8:14
Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD. {gall: or, poison}
Jeremiah 9:15
Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, {even} this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.