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A Divine Siege
Commentators unanimously explain that the verse uses the metaphor of a military siege. The speaker feels as if God Himself has built fortifications and walls around him, not for protection, but for attack. This powerful image conveys a feeling of being trapped, targeted, and completely overwhelmed by God's actions, with no way of escape.
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Lamentations
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Albert Barnes
On Lamentations 3:5
18th Century
Theologian
He hath builded ... - The metaphor is taken from the operations in a siege.
Gall and travail - Or “travail;”…
Charles Ellicott
On Lamentations 3:5
19th Century
Bishop
He has built. —The attack of sorrow is presented under the figure of a siege. In the next clause the figure is dropped. “…
Charles Spurgeon
On Lamentations 3:5
19th Century
Preacher
He has built against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
That is to say, as the besiegers erected a mound against a city, a…
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John Calvin
On Lamentations 3:5
16th Century
Theologian
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, …
John Gill
On Lamentations 3:5
17th Century
Pastor
He has builded against me
Fortresses, as the Targum adds; as when forts and batteries were raised by the Chaldeans a…
Matthew Henry
On Lamentations 3:1–20
17th Century
Minister
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…