⁵ He has put up a wall against me, shutting me in with bitter sorrow.

¹⁹ Keep in mind my trouble and my wandering, the bitter root and the poison.

¹⁵ So this is what the Lord of armies has said about the prophets: See, I will give them a bitter plant for their food, and bitter water for their drink: for from the prophets of Jerusalem unclean behaviour has gone out into all the land.

⁸ My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark.

²¹ They gave me poison for my food; and bitter wine for my drink.

¹⁴ Why are we seated doing nothing? come together, and let us go to the walled towns, and let destruction overtake us there, for the Lord our God has sent destruction on us, and given us bitter water for our drink, because we have done evil against the Lord.

¹⁵ So the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, I will give them, even this people, bitter plants for food and bitter water for drink.

⁷ He has put a wall round me, so that I am not able to go out; he has made great the weight of my chain.

⁸ Even when I send up a cry for help, he keeps my prayer shut out.

⁹ He has put up a wall of cut stones about my ways, he has made my roads twisted.