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

¹⁹ Remember mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

¹⁵ Therefore thus saith Jehovah 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 ungodliness gone forth into all the land.

⁸ He hath walled up my way that I cannot pass, And hath set darkness in my paths.

²¹ They gave me also gall for my food; And in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

¹⁴ Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there; for Jehovah our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against Jehovah.

¹⁵ therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.

⁷ He hath walled me about, that I cannot go forth; he hath made my chain heavy.

⁸ Yea, when I cry, and call for help, he shutteth out my prayer.

⁹ He hath walled up my ways with hewn stone; he hath made my paths crooked.