“ He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail. ”
He hath builded ... - The metaphor is taken from the operations in a siege. Gall and travail - Or “travail;” i. e. bitterness and weariness (through toil).
He hath (b) built against me, and surrounded [me] with gall and labour. (b) He speaks this as one that felt God's heavy judgment, which he greatly feared, and therefore sets them out with this diver...
Lamentations 3. The Third Lament. Here it is the singer that comes chiefly to the front; whereas in Lamentations 3:1 it had been Zion, and in Lamentations 3:2 it was Yahweh. EV hardly puts Lam...
builded against . built up against. gall. Compare Lamentations 3:19 , and Psalms 69:21 , with Matthew 27:34 . travel . travail, or labour. This line probably is put for the fortifications an...
The words, as translated, may seem harsh, yet they have no common beauty in Hebrew. The Prophet says he was blocked up and straitened as it were by walls; and as we shall see, he repeats this c...
He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail. He hath builded against me - Perhaps there is a reference here to the mounds and ramparts raised by the Chaldeans in order to tak...
Compassed me with gall and travail— Broken my head, that I faint away. Schultens.
My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones. My flesh and my skin hath he made old - ( Job 16:8 , "Thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me, and my...
Zion's Hope in God's Mercy This third poem is the most elaborate in structure and the most sublime in thought of all. The poet speaks not only for himself, but for the nation. The order of thought...
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 t...
THE MAN THAT HATH SEEN AFFLICTION Lamentations 3:1-21 WHETHER we regard it from a literary, a speculative, or a religious point of view, the third and central elegy cannot fail to strike us as...
In this central and longest poem, Jeremiah identified himself completely with the experiences of his people. In the first movement, in language which throbs with pain, he described his own sorrows, r...
I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light. Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all th...
He hath builded against me ,.... Fortresses, as the Targum adds; as when forts and batteries were raised by the Chaldeans against the city of Jerusalem, in which the prophet was: and compassed [me...
He hath builded against me, and compassed [me] with gall and travail. Ver. 5. He hath builded against me. ] Bulwarks and batteries. And compassed me with gall and travel. ] Or, With venom and v...
Surely against me is he turned The course of his providence toward me is quite altered. He was formerly kind and gracious, but now exercises an afflicting hand against me, and that not occasionally...
The Prophet's Personal Affliction. B. C. 588. 1 I am the man that hath seen afflicti...
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...
In His Initial Despair The Prophet Bewails His Own Sad Condition ( Lamentations 3:1-18 ). In this section God is simply spoken of as ‘He', the only mention of His Name being in Lamentations 3:18...
EXEGETICAL NOTES. — (ב) Lamentations 3:4 . Details as to how the writer suffered. My flesh and my skin he has worn out, he has broken my bones. Bodily exhaustion and racking pains consume the v...
I am about to read a portion of Holy Scripture which may seem very strange to some of you, but it belongs to a part of the congregation, and I hope it may be the means of giving them comfort. I read...
The Metre changes here. The letters of the Hebrew alphabet, twenty two in number, begin three hemistichs, which make sixty six verses. It would look better, and read more poetically, if the hemistich...
EXPOSITION Lamentations 3:1-25 MONOLOGUE SPOKEN BY AN INDIVIDUAL BELIEVER WHOSE FATE IS BOUND UP WITH THAT OF THE NATION ; OR PERHAPS BY THE NATION...
A Lament over Grievous Sufferings
Jeremiah 23:15 ; Jeremiah 8:14 ; Jeremiah 9:15 ; Job 19:8 ; Lamentations 3:19 ; Lamentations 3:7-9 ; Psalms 69:21
Builded — He hath built forts and batteries against my walls and houses.