They gave me also - My enemies; all persons around me. No one would show me even so much kindness as to give me food when I was hungry, or d…

Gall. —Heb., rôsh, i.e., head. (Compare poppy heads. See Deuteronomy 32:32). In Hosea 10:4 it is translated …

And I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none. They gave me also gal…

And they put gall into my meat. Here he again repeats that his enemies carry their cruelty towards him to the full extent of their power. …

They gave me also gall for my meat
Either some bitter herb mentioned with wormwood and hemlock, (Deuteronomy 29:18…

Whatever deep waters of affliction or temptation we sink into, whatever floods of trouble or ungodly men seem ready to overwhelm us, let us perseve…