KJV King James Version
He hath builded against me, and compassed [me] with gall and travail.
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Lamentations 3:5
He hath builded against me, and compassed [me] with gall and travail.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
WEB World English Bible
He has built against me, and surrounded me with gall and travail.
ASV American Standard Version
He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
He hath built up against me, And setteth round poverty and weariness.
Surrounding context — Lamentations 3
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 made my chain heavy.
8 Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
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Lamentations 3:19Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.Jeremiah 23:15Therefore 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.Job 19:8He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.Jeremiah 9:15Therefore 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.Psalm 69:21They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.Jeremiah 8:14Why 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.Lamentations 3:7-9He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
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