Lam 3:5
He hath builded against me, and compassed {me} with gall and travail.
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Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. {Remembering: or, Remember}
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. {profaneness: or, hypocrisy}
He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, {even} this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD. {gall: or, poison}
Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. {Remembering: or, Remember}
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. {profaneness: or, hypocrisy}
They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together. {daily: or, all the day}
For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness, and {in} the bond of iniquity.
And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.