Lamentations 3:5
gHe hath builded against me, and *compassed me with gall and *travail.
He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
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Lamentations 3:7 He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
Lamentations 3:9 He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
Isaiah 29:3 And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee.
Job 19:12 His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.
*:
compassed-surrounded.
*:
travail-labour, distress.
He hath not builded with me, increasing my prosperity, and protecting my houses, but he hath builded forts, and batteries, and castles, (military buildings,) to batter down my walls and houses, Isa 29:2,3. And compassed me with gall and travel; or with poison, venom, and misery, as some translate it; and it seems more proper than gall and travel, which have no cognation one with another. We are not well acquainted with the ancient dialect of other countries: the sense is obvious, God had surrounded them with misery and calamities.