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He has built against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
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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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18th Century
Presbyterian
He hath builded ... - The metaphor is taken from the operations in a siege.
Gall and travail - Or “travail;”…
19th Century
Anglican
He has built. —The attack of sorrow is presented under the figure of a siege. In the next clause the figure is dropped. “…
Baptist
That is to say, as the besiegers erected a mound against a city, a…
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16th Century
Protestant
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, …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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…
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13th Century
Catholic
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.
