Lamentations 3:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.

Lamentations 3:5 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Lamentations 3:19
Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
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.
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. …

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Despair Despondency Discouragement Pain

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-20)

The title of the Ps. 102:1-28 might very fitly be prefixed to this chapter— The prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and pours out his complaint before the Lord; for it is very feelingly and fluently that the complaint is here poured out. Let us observe the particulars of it. The prophet complains, 1. That God is angry. This gives both birth and bitterness to the affliction (Lam. 3:1):…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 5)

4-6. (Job 16:8).