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Lamentations 3:5

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He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
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  1. Lamentations 3:19Rank 1 from verse 5
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    19Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

  2. Jeremiah 23:15Rank 2 from verse 5
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    15Therefore 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.

  3. Job 19:8Rank 3 from verse 5
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    8He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.

  4. Jeremiah 8:14Rank 4 from verse 5
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    14Why 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.

  5. Jeremiah 9:15Rank 5 from verse 5
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    15Therefore 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.

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Lamentations 3:5

COMBINED MEANING

builded

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of build, meaning to construct, rest or depend on as a foundation.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

against

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Opposed to, contrary to, facing, toward, or in contact with; in some settings, exposed to or ready for a stated time.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893

COMBINED MEANING

compassed

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of compass, meaning to go around, surround, enclose, or encircle.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

gall

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Sense 1: A bodily organ or its bitter fluid. Sense 2: A bitter or poisonous substance. Sense 3: By figure, extreme bitterness, misery, corruption, iniquity, or bitter judgment.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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travail

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Sense 1: The painful labour and anguish of childbirth. Sense 2: To undergo such labour. Sense 3: Severe toil, trouble, sorrow, or suffering.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828

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3:4My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

3:5He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.

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3:6He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.

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