Lamentations 3:4-6 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Bible Comments

Gall] bitterest sorrow (Jeremiah 8:14). Travel] RV 'travail,' which is the more modern spelling, in the sense here intended, of painful labour (Numbers 20:14). He hath set me] RV 'He hath made me to dwell' (Psalms 143:3). Be dead of old] RV 'have been long dead.'

Lamentations 3:4-6

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.