King James Version (KJV)
Lamentations 3:5
“He hath builded against me, and compassed [me] with gall and travail.”
Verse in context — Lamentations 3
3
Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand [against me] all the day.
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.
7
He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
About Lamentations
Poems of grief over Jerusalem’s destruction.
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