He has walled up my way so that I can't pass, and has set darkness in my paths.
Lamentations 3:5 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) He has built against me, and compassed me with gall and travail. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 He hath builded against me, And compassed me with gall and travail. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition He has built up [siege mounds] against me and surrounded me with bitterness, tribulation, and anguish. American Standard Version (1901) He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail. Common English Bible He besieged me, surrounding me with bitterness and weariness. Catholic Public Domain Version BETH. He has built all around me, and he has encircled me with gall and hardship. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Beth. He hath built round about me and he hath compassed me with gall and labour. |
He has walled up my way so that I can't pass, and has set darkness in my paths.
They also gave me gall for my food. In my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.
Therefore thus says the LORD of Armies concerning the prophets: Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall; for from the prophets of Yerushalayim is ungodliness gone forth into all the land.
Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there; for the LORD our God has put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
therefore thus says the LORD of Armies, the God of Yisra'el, Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
*But when you see Yerushalayim surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation is at hand.