He hath builded ... - The metaphor is taken from the operations in a siege.

Gall and travail - Or “travail;”…

He has built. —The attack of sorrow is presented under the figure of a siege. In the next clause the figure is dropped. “…

Surely against me is he turned; he turns his hand against me all the day. My flesh and my skin, has he made old; he has broken my bones. He has…

The words, as translated, may seem harsh, yet they possess uncommon beauty in Hebrew. The Prophet says he was blocked up and confined, as it were, …

He has builded against me
Fortresses, as the Targum adds; as when forts and batteries were raised by the Chaldeans a…

The prophet relates the more gloomy and discouraging part of his experience, and how he found support and relief. In the time of his trial the Lord…

Here the author presents the effect of the divine scourging, just as a bruise is the effect of a rod. Concerning this, he explains three things.