THEOSISLamentations 3:5Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Beth. He hath built round about me, and he hath compassed me with gall, and labour.
בָּנָ֥ה עָלַ֛י וַיַּקַּ֖ף רֹ֥אשׁ וּתְלָאָֽה׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Lam 3:19Zain. Remember my poverty, and transgression, the wormwood and the gall.
- Jer 23:15Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts to the prophets: Behold I will feed them with wormwood, and will give them gall to drink: for from the prophets of Jerusalem corruption is gone forth into all the land.
- Job 19:8He hath hedged in my path round about, and I cannot pass, and in my way he hath set darkness.
- Jer 9:15Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Behold I will feed this people with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
- Ps 69 (68):21
- Jer 8:14Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fenced city, and let us be silent there: for the Lord our God hath put us to silence, and hath given us water of gall to drink: for we have sinned against the Lord.
- Lam 3:7Ghimel. He hath built against me round about, that I may not get out: he hath made my fetters heavy.
- Lam 3:9Ghimel. He hath shut up my ways with square stones, he hath turned my paths upside down.