Lamentations Chapter 3 verse 5 Holy Bible
He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
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He has put up a wall against me, shutting me in with bitter sorrow.
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He hath built against me, and encompassed [me] with gall and toil.
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He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
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He has built against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
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He hath built up against me, And setteth round poverty and weariness.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 5. - He hath builded against me, and compassed me. A figure from the siege of a town. Gall. For the true meaning of the word, see on Jeremiah 8:14. We need not trouble ourselves about it here, for the word is evidently used as a kind of "ideograph" for bitterness. Travel; literally, weariness.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(5) He hath builded.--The attack of sorrow is presented under the figure of a siege. In the next clause the figure is dropped. "Gall" stands, as in Jeremiah 8:14, for bitterest sorrow. "Travel" is the old English form of "travail," the two forms, originally identical, being now used with different meanings.